A fresh look at root infinitives from a cross-linguistic perspective
In this paper we examine the relation between the quantity and quality of the adult input to the child and the intensity of the root-infinitive stage in child language. We compare the languages English, French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese and test whether children produce infinitives mo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2008-02-01
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| Series: | Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/124 |