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Publication details [#7020]

Nelson, Keith E. 1981. Toward a rare-event cognitive comparison theory of syntax acquisition. In Dale, Philip S. and David Ingram, eds. Child language - An international perspective. Selected papers from the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language. University Park Press. pp. 229–240.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

input language | syntactic construction, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

On how children can be aided or hindered by the input they encounter, how new syntactic constructions are introduced into the young child's first language, and how these phenomena should be studied.