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Publication details [#38983]

Ninio, Anat. 1985. The meaning of children's first words : Evidence from the input. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (4) : 527–546.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | L1-acquisition | lexicalization | mother-child conversation | word meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper examines the meaning of children's first words, via an analysis of mother's conversational input. The findings suggest that first word meanings children acquire are probably rules for the lexicalization of particular communicative acts.