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The purpose of this chapter is to describe what Piaget calls a decalage in the acquisition of symbolic skills. A decalage is an invariant sequence in the development of a cognitive process. A fundamental tenet of Piaget’s theory is that a sequence of development which occurs in an earlier stage is repeated again in later stages. Bower (1979) describes, for example, the decalage in conservation of weight which first occurs in the sensori-motor stage and which is later recapitulated in the stage of concrete operations. We argue here for a decalage between the sequence of strategies in the acquisition of spoken language during the early preoperational period and the acquisition of written language which typically occurs early in the concrete operational stage.
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Marsh, G., Desberg, P. (1983). The Development of Strategies in the Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. In: Rogers, D., Sloboda, J.A. (eds) The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3724-9_16
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