Publications

Publication details [#43397]

Devescovi, Antonella, Elizabeth Bates, Cristina Caselli, Judy Snitzer Reilly, Daniela Marchione and Patrizio Pasqualetti. 2005. A crosslinguistic study of the relationship between grammar and lexical development. Journal of Child Language 32 (4) : 759–786.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | grammar1 | L1-acquisition | lexical choice

Language as a subject

English | Italian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper compares the link between grammatical and lexical development in English and Italian children, matched for age, gender, and vocabulary size, following the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories.