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Direct linkVeneziano, Edy; Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Children acquiring French elaborate their early verb constructions by adding adjacent morphemes incrementally at the left edge of core verbs. This hypothesis was tested with 2657 verb uses from four children between 1;3 and 2;7. Consistent with the Adjacency Hypothesis, children added clitic subjects frst only to present tense forms (as in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, French, Verbs
