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Peer reviewedVorster, Jan – Language Sciences, 1988
Longitudinal studies of the application of a paraphrasing model to 18- to 28-month-olds indicated that mean length of utterance was significantly correlated with realized and paraphrased frequencies of several linguistic items in the subjects' corpora. The model was productive for examining children's corpora of speech and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language
