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Publication details [#2172]

Clark, Eve V. and Barbara Frant Hecht. 1982. Learning to coin agent and instrument nouns. Cognition 12 : 1–24.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
agent, L1-acquisition of | instrument, L1-acquisition of | noun, L1-acquisition of | suffix, L1-acquisition of
Language as a subject
English
Journal WWW
www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

An empirical inquiry into how children acquire productive control over the suffix '-er' in coining agent and instrument nouns in English.