| Bates, E. & Goodman, J. (1999) "On the Emergence of Grammar from the Lexicon", in B. MacWhinney (ed.), The Emergence of Language, pp. 29-79 (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). |
.... or just at the beginning of the first word stage, when a few recognisably meaningful word productions are just emerging from the infant s babbling, and a year or more before the child has enough words that minimal pairs must be differentiated precisely from each other (see review of stages in Bates Goodman, 1999). Summarising these infant studies, then, we can say that even before they have any words qua words that is, even before they can associate any well rehearsed patterns of vocal production with fixed sets of meanings and syntactic functions infants are beginning to process the speech stream ....
Bates, E. & Goodman, J. (1999) "On the Emergence of Grammar from the Lexicon", in B. MacWhinney (ed.), The Emergence of Language, pp. 29-79 (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
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