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Peer reviewedTardif, Twila; Shatz, Marilyn; Naigles, Letitia – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Looks at naturalistic samples of adult-to-child speech to determine whether variations in the input are consistent with reported variations in the proportions of nouns and verbs in children's early vocabularies. Naturalistic speech samples from English-, Italian-, and Mandarin-speaking children and their caregivers were examined. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English
