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Peer reviewedHsieh, Li; Leonard, Laurence B.; Swanson, Lori – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Examined input frequency, sentence position, and duration as contributing factors to grammatical inflections. In parents' conversations with and stories aimed at young children, noun plural inflections were more frequent than third singular verb inflections, especially in sentence-final position. Analysis of four mothers' speech when reading…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Nouns
