The Ontogeny of English Phrase Structure: The First Phase

Abstract

Students of infants and of language have long wondered over the fact that a structure of such enormous formal complexity as language is so readily learned by organisms whose available intellectual resources appear in other respects quite limited. While a certain amount of work has been done on phonological development, and there has been much speculation about the acquisition of ‘meanings’, development at the morphological and syntactic levels has been relatively little studied. Yet it is perhaps the development at these levels that is the most striking and puzzling.

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