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What principles do young children rely on when they coin new words? What kinds of meanings do they try to express, and what word-forms do they construct to convey those meanings? In the present paper, I will look at one domain of innovative meanings and examine the effect on children’s innovations of the productivity of the pertinent adult devices in English, French, and German.
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Clark, E.V. (1981). Negative Verbs in Children’s Speech. In: Klein, W., Levelt, W. (eds) Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics. Synthese Language Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8453-0_13
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