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Clark, Eve V. 1981. Lexical innovations: How children learn to create new words. In Deutsch, Werner, ed. The child's construction of language. Academic Press. pp. 299–328.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

lexical innovation, L1-acquisition of | word order, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

C. studies the principles underlying children's lexical innovations. Lexical innovations are said to be usually contextual, i.e., they require knowledge of the context (as mutual knowledge) for their interpretation.