Children's Acquisition of Compound Constructions

Ruth Berman*

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Abstract

Children's comprehension and production of (mainly noun + noun) compound constructions have been the subject of substantial research over the past twenty years or so. This chapter looks at the acquisition of compounds, primarily in English and Hebrew, from the perspectives both of naturalistic and experimental data. It considers the extent to which the age and sequence of acquisition of compounds might be a matter of typological differences in languages.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Compounding
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)9780191743566
ISBN (Print)9780199695720
DOIs
StatePublished - 18 Sep 2012

Keywords

  • Compounds
  • English
  • Hebrew
  • Language acquisition

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