The children's utterances were coded for the informational status of any referring expressions using four categories: full noun, pronoun, null, and no response.
An alternative interpretation of such utterances could be a failure of movement and a filling of the postverbal position with lexical material.
However, they also had significantly more utterances in their samples, and thus more opportunities for the use of complex sentences.
Percentage maze use represents the overall percentage of utterances with mazes in the child's sample.
The non-target utterances that the children had formed by conjoining the subparts of the target system became incompatible with the longer input structures.
Such structures were commonly produced by the bilingual children as soon as they constructed utterances of that length.
She describes a situation where a child labels pictures in a book and the adult repeats the child's utterances.
In our analysis, it is not the relationship between two utterances that is constrained, but the relationship between two pragmatic sources.
