Individual differences in early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive distinction
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language
- Vol. 19 (2) , 287-310
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900011429
Abstract
The existence of stylistic variation between children in the early stages of language acquisition has been most frequently studied using Nelson's 0973) referentialdeadend’ in early language development, the acquisition of frozen phrases may provide an alternative route into multiword speech.Keywords
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