Publications

Publication details [#34183]

Tomasello, Michael, Elena Lieven, Heike Behrens and Jennifer Speares. 2003. Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach. Journal of Child Language 30 (2) : 333–370.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creativity | mother-child conversation | utterance

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-0009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines to what extent the intelligible, multi-word utterances produced by a three-year-old child in interaction with her mother, relate to utterances that the child previously produced.