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Peer reviewedRobinson, Byron F.; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Used growth curves and dynamic-systems modeling to examine early lexical and grammatical development of one male child. Found that lexical development described a pattern of logistic growth. Plural growth began after reaching a threshold in vocabulary size. Lexical growth slowed as plural growth increased, and increased when plural use reached…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Goodness of Fit, Grammar
