These data suggest that even the earliest multi-word utterances adhere to syntactic constraints.
We, thus, leave open whether long and short vowels are represented differently at this earliest stage.
However, it has to be realized that synthetic compounds as such date back to the earliest recorded stages of the language.
The combination of these two analytic strategies may thus provide important information about the earliest stages of lexical development.
Given the source meaning 'to seize', the subject in the earliest stages is typically but not necessarily agentive.
This variation in protein phosphorylation represents one of the earliest reported biochemical differences in imbibed dormant and germinable seed embryos.
We included only the person with the earliest date of illness onset within a household.
In many cases the earliest types involve structures that are simpler in some sense than many of the attested patterns.
