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Peer reviewedHoff-Ginsberg, Erika; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study investigated the extent to which the nature of verb input accounts for the order in which children acquire verbs. Subjects were 57 mothers and their Stage I children. Results suggest that the effect of syntactic diversity in input supports the "syntactic bootstrapping" account of how children use structural information to learn new verbs'…
Descriptors: Child Language, Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
