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Lieven, Elena; Behrens, Heike; Speares, Jennifer; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Determined the degree to which a sample of one child's creative utterances related to utterances that the child previously produced. Utterances were intelligible, multi-word utterances produced by the child in a single hour of interaction with her mother. Results suggest the high degree of creativity in early English child language could be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creativity, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Hansen-Bede, Lynne – 1975
Three stages of the developing second language of a 3;9-3;11 year-old English-speaking child in an Urdu speech milieu were examined and compared with findings that have been accumulated about the order and process of first language acquisition. The study showed that in the development of many syntactic and morphological features the child used…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Creativity, Generalization