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Peer reviewedBraine, Martin D. S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1976
This monograph presents a descriptive analysis of the syntactic patterns in 16 corpora of word combinations from 11 infants learning either English (six children), Samoan, Finnish, Hebrew, or Swedish. The mean utterance lengths range up to about 1.7 morpehmes. There are both reanalyses of corpora in the literature and new corpora. The data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedNelson, Katherine – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1973
Reports results of a longitudinal study of the acquisition of first words by 18 infants. Strategies used in word acquisition and environmental variables related to language development were investigated. Results were analyzed in terms of an interaction model of the language-learning process. (DP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
