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Combining two-term relations: evidence in support of flat structure*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Jane C. Hill
Jane C. Hill
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Smith College, Massachusetts
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I will summarize here some evidence in support of the hypothesis that the child's early combinations of two-word relations may be described simply as processes of concatenation and deletion. This implies that the utterances so produced will represent flat constructions as opposed to hierarchical ones.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , October 1984 , pp. 673 - 678
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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