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Publication details [#60132]

Muñoz, Carmen, Sara Feijoo and Elisabet Serrat. 2015. Morphosyntactic cues to noun categorization in English child-directed speech. Language & Communication 45 : 1–11.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

caregiver-child conversation | grammatical category | language development1 | language input | noun

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study asserts that English child-directed speech includes morphosyntactic regularities, sufficiently powerful for infants to place nouns into their grammatical category, thus supporting infants' language development.