Conjunction Reduction in Child Language.

Lust, Barbara

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Conjunction Reduction in Child Language

Lust, Barbara

Journal of Child Language, 4, 2, 257-287, Jun 77

In four studies, 60 two- and three-year-olds were studied in an elicited imitation task wherein the linguistic form of sentences was varied according to conjunction structure and pattern of redundancy deletion in conjunction reduction. Both factors were found to affect imitation. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Function Words, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Preschool Children, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Structure, Syntax

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