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Publication details [#36552]

Hoff-Ginsberg, E. 1990. Maternal speech and the child's development of syntax: A further look. Journal of Child Language 17 (1) : 85–99.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

mother-child conversation | syntax1, L1-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

New analyses of mother-child conversations test the hypotheses that maternal speech addressed to children supports the children's development of syntax, by eliciting conversation from the child or by offering language-advancing material.