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On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection
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Abstract
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| This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3-3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech. |
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English
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First language. - Chalfont St. Giles, 1980, currens
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Publication
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Chalfont St. Giles
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2011
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0142-7237
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1740-2344
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DOI
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10.1177/0142723711409976
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31
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, p. 461-479
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000208862700005
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