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This Book Approaches Syntactic Development From An Unusual Point Of View. Our Chosen Linguistic Framework Is Relevance Theory, A Theory Of Pragmatics With A Strong Commitment To A Cognitive Conceptualization Of Linguistic Competence. The Theory's Architecture Of Linguistic Information Acknowledges The Existence Of Procedural Instructions As Part Of The Content Of Words, Covering Various Processing Acts, Including Syntactic Combination. The Unusual Linguistic Framework And Methodology Of This Study Represent A Break With Present-day Approaches In Developmental Psycholinguistics And Maybe Even With The Teachings Of Mainstream Linguistics-- Provided By Publisher.