Publications

Publication details [#31408]

Song, Bailin, T. K. F. Au and M. Dapretto. 1994. Input Vs Constraints: Early Word Acquisition in Korean and English. Journal of Memory and Language 33 (5) : 567–582.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | early childhood | input language | L1-acquisition | word meaning

Language as a subject

English | Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0749-596X

Journal WWW

www.idealibrary.com/

Annotation

This study addresses the role of constraints on word meanings in early acquisition of object names in English and Korean. The findings suggest that constraints on word meanings are more important than natural input variations in accounting for basic patterns of semantic development across languages.