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Do young children have adult syntactic competence?
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Social cognition, joint attention, and communicative competence from 9 to 15 months of age.
Carpenter, M., Nagell, K., Tomasello, M., Butterworth, G., & Moore, C. (1998) · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · doi:10.2307/1166214 · Cited by 2,727
Self-citationTomasello, M., Kruger, A. C., & Ratner, H. H. (1993) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · doi:10.1017/s0140525x0003123x · Cited by 1,891
Self-citationLanguage Acquisition and Conceptual Development
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Children's First Word Combinations
Braine, M. D. S., & Bowerman, M. (1976) · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · doi:10.2307/1165959 · Cited by 538 · cited 2×
“Bowerman (1976) suggested that one of her two English-speaking children had many such item-specific constructions, MacWhinney (1978) suggested the same for at least some of his Hungarian-speaking children, and Braine (1976) found many item-specific patterns in the spontaneous speech of several children learning a numb…”
BackgroundAcquiring basic word order: evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure
AKHTAR, N. (1999) · Journal of Child Language · doi:10.1017/s030500099900375x · Cited by 320 · cited 9×
“Akhtar (1999) modeled novel verbs for novel events with young children at 2;8, 3;6, and 4;4 years old.”
BackgroundInfluentialComparing different models of the development of the English verb category
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tomasello, M.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2000-03
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 209-253
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2064115476
- Cited by
- 1,013
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 65.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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