INFANTILE EGOCENTRIC SPEECH: SPECIFIC CHARACTER OF DENOTATION AND VERBAL FAMILIARIZATION OF REALITY

Abstract

The article is about the phenomenon of infantile egocentric speech, as a natural
stage of a «speech personality» formation. On the basis of a large amount of examples the
author drew conclusions on the psycholinguistic regularities of infantile egocentric speech
and the specifi c character of a childs world perception and verbal refl ection of impressions
of the surrounding world. The phenomenon of infantile egocentric speech is considered as a
tool to understand the inner world of a child and at the same time as the evidence of the early
period of the language development, where a word and a thing, denoted by the word, are inseparable.
The author concludes that the infantile egocentric speech research is signifi cant
both for teachers, psychologists and linguists, language historians, mythologists.