The Language Environment and Syntactic Word-Class Acquisition [electronic resource] / Jakub Zavrel and Jorn Veenstra.

A study analyzed the distribution of words in a three-million-word corpus of text from the "Wall Street Journal," in order to test a theory of the acquisition of word categories. The theory, an alternative to the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis, proposes that the child exploits multiple...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Zavrel, Jakub
Other Authors:	Veenstra, Jorn
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
Subjects:	Classification. Discourse Analysis. Foreign Countries. Language Acquisition. Language Patterns. Language Research. Linguistic Theory. News Writing. Newspapers. Syntax. Vocabulary.