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Other authors / contributors: | Tribushinina, Elena, editor.
Voeĭkova, Maria D., editor.
Noccetti, Sabrina, editor.
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ISBN: | 9781443883269 1443883263 9781443877305 1443877301
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary: | This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives denote properties and enter child vocabularies later than words for objects (such as apple and tree) and actions (such as eat and run), probably due to lower frequencies in parental speech and greater conceptual complexity. Adjective acquisition has received relatively little attention in child language research. Furthermore, cross-linguistic studies of adjective learning are virtually non-existent. This book represents the first systematic analysis of how children learning typolo.
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Other form: | Print version: Semantics and morphology of early adjectives in first language acquisition. 9781443877305 1443877301
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