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Peer reviewedBottari, Piero; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1994
Examines the production of schwa-like elements, monosyllabic place holders (MPHs), before lexical items in early utterances of Italian children. The results of a longitudinal study of normal language acquisition in six Italian preschool children show that MPHs do not stem from imitation but actually retain important grammatical properties of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Italian, Language Acquisition
