Publications

Publication details [#50031]

Smith, Linda B. and Aarre Laakso. 2007. Pronouns and verbs in adult speech to children: A corpus analysis. Journal of Child Language 34 (4) : 725–763.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language development1 | mother-child conversation | pronoun | verb

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This corpus analysis shows statistical regularities in pronoun-verb co-occurrences in child directed speech that could cue physical versus psychological verbs. Children might employ these regularities in acquiring verbs, although it still remains unknown whether they actually do so.