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Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Akhtar, Nameera; Dodsen, Kelly; Rekau, Laura – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Examined young children's language productivity with newly learned forms by teaching them four new words: two nouns and two verbs. Findings indicate children combined the novel nouns productively with already known words much more often than they did the novel verbs--by many orders of magnitude and several children pluralized the new nouns,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Games, Infants, Language Acquisition
