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Yamashita Yoshie
Department Undergraduate School , School of Business Administration Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 1998 |
| Type | Other |
| Title | The acquisition of nouns and verbs in young Japanese children: Why do verbal nouns emerge early? |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 2,pp.741-752 |
| Details | The acquisition of verbal nouns comes before that of regular verbs and the data was examined from a discourse perspective. The results seem to indicate that certain pragmatic factors play an important role in determining what kind of words are acquired before others. |