Le parole dell'infanzia. Émile Egger e l'autonomia morale nel bambino

In French cultural debate of late nineteenth century, the philologist Émile Egger collects a series of observations on his children in order to confirm the thesis that the development of human intelligence is largely preformed. On the basis of this assumption, Egger explains that child acquires language through imitation of adults, but the most original appropriation occurs through the small “barbarismes”, which are the evidence of child’s creative abilities and “instinct grammatical”.