title: A functional account of verb use in the early stages of English multiword development.
abstract: The present study investigates flexibility of verb use in the early stages of English multiword development, and its relationship with patterns attested in the input. The data is taken from a case study of a monolingual English-speaking boy aged 2 ; 5-2 ; 9 and his mother while engaged in daily activities in the home. Data were coded according to Halliday's (1975) functional system. The findings suggest that early multiword verb use is functionally restricted and closely tied to verb use in the input.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester. t.cameron@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Thea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cameron-Faulkner
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007804:Language Development; D008037:Linguistics; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012660:Semantics; D012931:Social Environment; D013067:Speech Perception; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014706:Verbal Learning; D014825:Vocabulary