The richness of the stimulus: Constructional variation and development in child-directed speech
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237241303225
Abstract: In a seminal study, Cameron-Faulkner et al. made two important observations about utterance-level constructions in English child-directed speech (CDS). First, they observed that canonical in/transitive sentences are surprisingly infrequent in child-direct speech (given that SVO… read more here.
Keywords: child; child directed; richness stimulus; cds constructions ... See more keywords