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Blackwell, Aleka Akoyunoglou – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Properties of the input, such as raw frequency and syntactic diversity, have been shown to play a role, to different extents, in the acquisition of nouns and verbs. This study investigated the relationship between three properties of the input (input frequency, syntactic diversity, and variety in noun-type co-occurrence) and age of acquisition of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Play, Semantics, Nouns