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Publication details [#36567]

Goldin-Meadow, Susan and Carolyn Mylander. 1990. The role of parental input in the development of a morphological system. Journal of Child Language 17 (3) : 527–563.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | deafness | L1-acquisition | morphology, L1-acquisition of | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper examines the impact of parental input in deaf children's development of regularities within spontaneous gesture systems, comparable to morphologic structure. The findings emphasize the children's own contribution to structural regularity at intra-word level.