Michael Halliday Quote

What makes learning possible is that the coding imposed by the mother tongue corresponds to a possible mode of perception and interpretation of the environment. A green car can be analysed experientially as carness qualified by greenness, if that is the way the system works.

p. 140 cited in: Clare Painter (2005) Learning Through Language In Early Childhood. p. 64. - Learning How to Mean--Explorations in the Development of Language, 1975