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Peer reviewedCamaioni, Luigia; Longobardi, Emiddia – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Examines naturalistic adult-to-child speech of Italian middle class mothers to determine which patterns characterize linguistic input to infants. Because Italian is a pro-drop language, adult-to-child speech revealed bias toward more salient semantic and morphological significance of verbs relative to nouns, and verbs will likely occupy…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Italian, Language Acquisition
