A construction based analysis of child d
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Thea Cameron-Faulkner; Elena Lieven; Michael Tomasello
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Article
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2003
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Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
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English
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The child directed speech of twelve English-speaking mothers was analyzed in terms of utterance-level constructions. First, the mothers' utterances were categorized in terms of general constructional categories such as Wh-questions, copulas and transitives. Second, mothers' utterances within these c