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Brown, R. and Bellugi 1964

 
Reference
 

Brown, Roger, and Ursula Bellugi. 1964. "Three processes in the child's acquisition of syntax." In Minami and Kennedy 1991. (Reprint from HER.)

Summary
 

Explores the following three processes:

 
  • Child imitation of parent speech, reducing it to content words
  • Parent imitation of child speech, expanding it to include grammatical function words
  • Child deduction of grammatical structure of language

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