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Publication details [#36939]

Kohn, Amy S. and Barbara Landau. 1990. A partial solution to the homonym problem: Parents' linguistic input to young children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 19 (2) : 71–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

form | homonymy | L1-acquisition | meaning | mother-child conversation

Place, Publisher

Plenum Press

ISBN

0090-6905

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how young children use parents' specific linguistic information to differentiate homonyms that might violate the often assumed unique form-meaning relationship during early word learning.