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Paraphrasing: Extending the Data Base for Child Language Research.
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Vorster, Jan – Language Sciences, 1988
Longitudinal studies of the application of a paraphrasing model to 18- to 28-month-olds indicated that mean length of utterance was significantly correlated with realized and paraphrased frequencies of several linguistic items in the subjects' corpora. The model was productive for examining children's corpora of speech and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language
The Development of New and Old Information in Young Children's Early Language.
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Baker, Nancy D.; Greenfield, Patricia M. – Language Sciences, 1988
A longitudinal study of four 17- to 33-month-olds revealed that their linguistic selection at the one-word stage was governed by principles of informativeness, while the two-word stage was characterized by new, or a combination of new and old, information. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns