When expressive vocabulary grows to between 50 and 200 words, the overwhelming majority of words are nominals (broadly defined).
Learning the form and use of complex nominals : a developmental route.
They examined whether children's early words were context-bound, nominals or non-nominals.
In addition, in contrast to nominals, pronominals are massively preverbal.
He also reports a late ' anaphoric ' strategy, according to which older children use pronominals when there is local coreference and nominals otherwise.
Only one of the 16 mixed nominals of this type contains a seeming gender-mismatch.
There is a small but representative sample of the data in question (listed in the appendix), concentrating on the lessdiscussed, nonverbal-based -er nominals.
The basic finding of this study was that children did not use different kinds of nominals depending on the perceptual availability of the referent object.
