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Direct linkKrott, Andrea; Nicoladis, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The family size of the constituents of compound words, or the number of compounds sharing the constituents, has been shown to affect adults' access to compound words in the mental lexicon. The present study was designed to see if family size would affect children's segmentation of compounds. Twenty-five English-speaking children between 3;7 and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Young Children, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development
