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The overgeneralization of Argument Structure Alternation (henceforth ASA) in children’s speech has been documented on a number of typologically different languages: Brazilian Portuguese (Figueira, 1984), English (Bowerman, 1974,Bowerman, 1982a,Bowerman, 1982b,Bowerman, 1990;Lord, 1979; Pinker, 1989, among others); Hebrew (Berman, 1982, Berman, 1994,); Inuktitut (Allen, 1996); Japanese (Morikawa, 1990, Morikawa, 1991); K’iche (Pye, 1994).
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Barrière, I., Lorch, M., Le Normand, M.T. (2000). Argument Structure Alternation in French Children’s Speech. In: Perkins, M., Howard, S. (eds) New Directions In Language Development And Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4157-8_14
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