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Baker, Nancy D.; Greenfield, Patricia M. – Language Sciences, 1988
A longitudinal study of four 17- to 33-month-olds revealed that their linguistic selection at the one-word stage was governed by principles of informativeness, while the two-word stage was characterized by new, or a combination of new and old, information. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns