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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Main Author: Gathercole, V. C. Mueller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1979-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/660