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Direct linkTheakston, Anna L.; Ibbotson, Paul; Freudenthal, Daniel; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Science, 2015
Productivity is a central concept in the study of language and language acquisition. As a test case for exploring the notion of productivity, we focus on the noun slots of verb frames, such as __"want"__, __"see"__, and __"get"__. We develop a novel combination of measures designed to assess both the flexibility and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Creativity, Semantics
Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Olguin, Raquel – Cognitive Development, 1993
Eight 20- to 26-month-old children were exposed to 4 novel nouns in a game context over several weeks to determine whether, when, and in what ways the children would use them beyond their original linguistic forms. The majority were productive in their use of the nouns, indicating that the grammatical category for noun is operational by age 2.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
