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Publication details [#34181]

Silvén, Maarit, Annarilla Ahtola and Pekka Niemi. 2003. Early words, multiword utterances and maternal reading strategies as predictors of mastering word inflections in Finnish. Journal of Child Language 30 (2) : 253–279.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | children's book | inflection | linguistic competence | mother

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-0009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study discusses how Finnish children's language skills measured at age 2 and maternal book-reading strategies, predict mastery of word inflections at age 3 and age 5.