On The Production Of Comparative Structures In Child Speech
Two children's spontaneous utterances containing the comparative structure are examined for their semantic content. Many comparatives are found to encode the notion 'A has property X,' and this use is often found in reference to the presence of X to an extreme, rather than a non-extre...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1979-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/660 |