Development of Meta-Abilities and Regulatory Mechanisms in the Use of Linguistic Structures by Children

The neologism metalinguistic has only been in use for a short time. Between 1950 and 1960, linguists employed it to refer to anything related to metalanguage, the language whose lexicon is composed of all the words comprising linguistic terminology (such as syntax, semantics, phoneme, lexeme, etc., but also more common terms, like word, sentence, letter, etc.).