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Direct linkMcClure, Kathleen; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In the current debate about the abstractness of children's early grammatical knowledge, Tomasello & Abbott-Smith (2002) have suggested that children might first develop "weak" or "partial" representations of abstract syntactic structures. This paper attempts to characterize these structures by comparing the development of constructions around…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Language, Program Validation, Investigations
