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Publication details [#632]

Abrams, Kenneth H., Christine Chiarello, Kathleen Cress, Susan Green and Nancy Ellett. 1978. The relation between mother to child speech and word order comprehension strategies in children. In Campbell, Robin N. and Philip T. Smith, eds. Recent advances in the psychology of language. Plenum Press. pp. 337–347.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | context of L1-acquisition | passive construction, L1-acquisition of | word order, comprehension of | word order, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

An attempt to discover whether there is any relationship between a child's language environment and its use of a First-Noun-Equals-Agent/Second-Noun-Equals- Object strategy (in the misinterpretation of passives).