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Publication details [#49961]

Basboll, Hans, Dorthe Bleses, Pia Thomsen, Sonja Wehberg, Werner Vach and Thomas O. Madsen. 2007. Danish children's first words: Analysing longitudinal data based on monthly CDI parental reports. First Language 27 (4) : 361–383.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | early childhood | L1-acquisition | pragmatic function | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study employs the Danish adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Scale to explore Danish children's first word acquisition with regard to the semantic-pragmatic content of this early first language lexicon, its sound structure, and its composition based on formal linguistic categories.