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date: 27 February 2021

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Children's comprehension and production of (mainly noun + noun) compound constructions have been the subject of substantial research over the past twenty years or so. This chapter looks at the acquisition of compounds, primarily in English and Hebrew, from the perspectives both of naturalistic and experimental data. It considers the extent to which the age and sequence of acquisition of compounds might be a matter of typological differences in languages.

Keywords: compounds, English, Hebrew, language acquisition

Ruth Berman

Ruth Berman is Professor Emeritus, Linguistics Department, and Chair in Language across the Life Span of Tel Aviv University. Past president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, she holds a BA in languages and literature from the University of Cape Town, an MA in linguistics and language teaching from Columbia University, and a PhD in Hebrew language and linguistics from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Her research interests include Modern Hebrew, cross-linguistic study of language acquisition, later language development, and discourse analysis.

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