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Direct linkTheakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2004
In many areas of language acquisition, researchers have suggested that semantic generality plays an important role in determining the order of acquisition of particular lexical forms. However, generality is typically confounded with the effects of input frequency and it is therefore unclear to what extent semantic generality or input frequency…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Verbs
