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Olguin, Raquel; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 1993
A study of two year olds investigated the nature and development of children's early productivity with verb-argument structure and verb morphology. Results indicated that the children showed no signs of productive verb morphology, but they did use newly learned verbs in some creative ways involving nounlike uses and the appending of locatives.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Usage