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Download full textClark, Eve V. – 1980
The meaning of children's lexical innovations is distinguished from the forms they rely on to convey meaning. Children require knowledge of the context in order to judge how the meaning of their innovation can be conveyed to the addressee. This contextualization is often achieved by default, since children tend to limit their early conversations…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Lexicology
