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Rissman, Lilia; Legendre, Geraldine; Landau, Barbara – Language Learning and Development, 2013
Young English-speaking children often omit auxiliary verbs from their speech, producing utterances such as "baby crying" alongside the more adult-like "baby is crying." Studies have found that children's proficiency with auxiliary BE is correlated with frequency statistics in the input, leading some researchers to argue that…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Priming, Toddlers