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Peer reviewedPine, Julian M.; Martindale, Helen – Journal of Child Language, 1996
This study assessed the relative merits of adult-like syntactic and limited scope formula accounts of children's early determiner use to evaluate the claim that children can be said to be operating with a syntactic determiner category early in development. The study focuses specifically on Valian's (1986) criteria for attributing the syntactic…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Determiners (Languages)
