To HAVE and to BE: Function Word Reduction in Child Speech, Child Directed Speech and Inter-adult Speech

Function words are known to be shorter than content words. I investigate the function words BE and HAVE (with its content word homonym) and show that more reduction, operationalized as word shortening or contraction, is found in some grammaticalized meanings of these words. The difference between th...

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Main Author: Barth, Danielle
Other Authors: Kapatsinski, Vsevolod
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19687

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