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Direct linkFerry, Alissa; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To learn a language infants must learn to link arbitrary sounds to their meaning. While words are the clearest example of this link, they are not the only component of language; morphological regularities (e.g., the plural -s suffix in English) carry meaning as well. Comprehensive theories of language acquisition must account for how infants build…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
