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Peer reviewedIngram, David; Thompson, William – Language, 1996
Presents the Lexical/Semantic Hypothesis, which proposes that early learning is more lexically oriented, and that early word combinations can be explained by more semantically oriented accounts than the Full Competence Hypothesis. The article also replaces the Grammatical Infinitive Hypothesis with the Modal Hypothesis. (32 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, German, Hypothesis Testing
