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Bretherton, I. , NcNew, S. , Snyder, L. & Bates, E. (1983). Individual differences at 20 months: analytic and holistic strategies in language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 10, 293-320.

Carroll, D.W. (1986). Psychology of Language (California : Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.)

Cruttenden, A. (1979). Language in Infancy and Childhood ( Manchester: Manchester University Press).

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Gleitman, L.R. , Newport, E.L. & Gleitman, H. (1984). The current status of the motherese hypothesis . Journal of Child Language, 11, 43-79

Greenfield, P. & Smith, J. (1976). The Structure of Communication in Early Language Development (New York: Academic Press).

Gutfreund, M. , Harrison, M. , & Wells, C.G. (1989). Bristol Language Development Scales ( Wmdsor: NFER-Nelson).

Harris, M. & Coltheart, M. (1986). Language Processing in Children and Adults (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).

Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1979). A Functional Approach to Child Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Nelson K. (1973). Structure and strategy in learning to talk. Monographs of the Society of Research in Child Development, 38, 149.

Pinker, S. (1984). Language Learnability and Language Development (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press).

Reich, P.A. (1986). Language Development (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall).

Richards, B.J. (1990). Language Development and Individual Differences: a Study of Auxiliary Verb Learning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Rodd, L. & Brame, M.D.S. (1970). Children's imitations of syntactic constructions as a measure of linguistic competence. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour 10, 430-43.

Scarborough, H. and Wycoff, J. (1986). Mother, I'd still rather do it myself: some further non-effects of 'motherese'. Journal of Child Language, 13, 431-437.

Slobin, D.I. (1979). Psycholinguistics (2nd. ed.) (Glenview, Illinois: Scott Foresman).

Snyder, L. Bates, E. & Bretherton, I. (1981). Content and context in early lexical development. Journal of Child Language, 8, 565-582.

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