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Publication details [#31383]

Bloom, Paul. 1994. Possible names: The role of syntax-semantics mappings in the acquisition of nominals. Lingua 92 : 297–329.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L1-acquisition | nominal construction | representational structure | vocabulary growth | word meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0024-3841

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that even though young children's syntax-semantics mappings are not by themselves sufficient to account for children's success at word learning, they play an important role in lexical development.