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Direct linkNaigles, Letitia R.; Hoff, Erika; Vear, Donna – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2009
Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this…
Descriptors: Children, Infants, Verbs, Syntax
Peer reviewedNaigles, Letitia R.; Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examined the extent to which maternal linguistic input enabled children to use syntactic bootstrapping. Studied uses of 25 common verbs in speech of 57 mothers to their 1-year olds and 2-year olds. Found that verbs can be used to create informative syntactic frames, syntactic frames can cue appropriate verb class, and multiple syntactic framing…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
