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Pronouns and verbs in adult speech to children: A corpus analysis

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Pronouns are statistical beacons; verbs are meaning clusters they spotlight—child-directed speech contains enough regularities for simple learners to infer broad verb meanings.

Laakso, Aarre and Smith, Linda B.. 2007. "Pronouns and verbs in adult speech to children: A corpus analysis." Journal of Child Language 34 : 725-763. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000907008136.