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Direct linkKauschke, Christina; Hofmeister, Christoph – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This paper focuses on aspects of early lexical acquisition in German. There have been conflicting results in the literature concerning both the pattern of vocabulary growth and the composition of the early lexicon. Our study describes the development of various categories of words and questions the preponderance of nouns in spontaneous speech. 32…
Descriptors: German, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Nouns
