Input and Learnability: Direct-Object Omissibility in English.

Ingham, Richard

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ERIC Number: EJ489610

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Publication Date: 1994

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Input and Learnability: Direct-Object Omissibility in English.

Ingham, Richard

Language Acquisition, v3 n2 p95-120 1993-94

Research is reported showing that children are lexically conservative in the domain of learning argument omissibility. Two studies (one observational case study, one experimental) show a relationship between the argument frames used in input and those used by child subjects. (Contains 38 references.) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, English, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Persuasive Discourse, Preschool Children, Syntax, Young Children

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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