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Patterns of Verb Use in Mother and Child [microform] / Jill de Villiers
Bib ID 5429324
Format BookBook, MicroformMicroform, OnlineOnline
Author
de Villiers, Jill
 
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Description [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983. 
7 p. 
Summary

The influence of maternal use of verbs upon a child's developing rule system for verb usage was examined. Previously reported data (Brown, 1983) on mother-to-child speech were analyzed. Thirteen different contexts for verb use were identified. There was a close resemblance between the way the child and his mother distributed their uses of verbs. There was very little immediate imitation on the part of either mother or child. Apparently the child monitored his mother's use of verbs as an index of their potential for new constructions. It is suggested that the child compared a verb's privileges of occurrence with other items heard in a particular construction. The greater the degree of overlap, the more confident he was that it participates in the construction. As a result, verbs with a variety of heard uses were used with greater confidence by the child even in unheard contexts. A mechanism of this sort would allow for novelty of verb use even while the child was storing information about syntactic rules in his lexicon. (RW)

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Availability: PRCLD, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 ($12.00).

ERIC Note: In its: Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Volume 22, p43-48, Jul 1983. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Child Language Research Forum (14th, Stanford, CA, March 1983).

Reproduction Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. 
Subjects Child Language.  |  Language Acquisition.  |  Language Usage.  |  Learning Processes.  |  Mothers.  |  Parent Child Relationship.  |  Syntax.  |  Verbs.
Form/genre Reports, Research.  |  Speeches/Meeting Papers.
Other authors/contributors Stanford Univ., CA. Dept. of Linguistics
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