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Download full textGerken, LouAnn – 1987
A study investigated the hypothesis that children are sensitive to functors in language and only omit them due to factors specific to speech production and after having analyzed them as separate morphemes. This hypothesis was tested as an alternative to two existing hypotheses concerning children's selective listening for content words and for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Intonation, Language Acquisition
