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The acquisition of reference involves both morphosyntax and pragmatics. This study investigates whether Dutch, English and French two- to three-year-old children differentiate in their use of determiners between non-specific/specific reference, newness/givenness in discourse and mutual/no mutual knowledge between interlocutors. A brief analysis of the input shows a clear association between form and function, although there are some language differences in this respect.

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Comparing deaf and hearing Dutch infants: changes in the vowel space in the first 2 years.

Clin Linguist Phon

February 2009

Institute for Phonetic Sciencs/Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The influence of the mother tongue on vowel productions in infancy is different for deaf and hearing babies. Audio material of five hearing and five deaf infants acquiring Dutch was collected monthly from month 5-18, and at 24 months. Fifty unlabelled utterances were digitized for each recording.

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