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Peer reviewedWijnen, Frank; Kempen, Masja; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Explores the possibility that the early predominance of infinitival forms in children acquiring Dutch as their first language is related to patterns in the language input. Analyzed a corpus of utterances addressed by two Dutch-speaking mothers to their 2- and 3-year-old sons. Root infinitive utterances amounted to 10%, and auxiliary-plus…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedShi, Rushen; Morgan, James L.; Allopenna, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Maternal infant-directed speech in Mandarin Chinese and Turkish (two mother-child dyads each) was examined to see if cues exist in input that might assist infants' assignments of words to lexical and functional item categories. Results show that sets of distributional, phonological, and acoustic cues distinguishing lexical and functional items are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Infants
