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The role of language input in the early acquisition of Dutch: the relative importance of social-pragmatic versus formal aspects.

The aim of this project is to investigate to what extent social-pragmatic factors and formal aspects of children's language input are important for the lexical development of 47 Dutch-hearing babies and toddlers between the ages of 5 and 20 months. There have been several studies based on English that have approached this relationship. By focusing on another language the present project wants to assess to what extent the findings based on English are more generally valid. It will do so on the basis of previously collected and partially coded video-recordings of mother-child interaction.
Date:1 Jan 2008 →  31 Mar 2009
Keywords:PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Disciplines:Linguistics