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How do children learn language?
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References

Bloom, P. (2000) How Children Learn the Meanings of Words. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Goldberg, A. (2019) Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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Mintz, T.H., Walker, R.L., Welday, A. and Kidd, C. (2018) ‘Infants’ sensitivity to vowel harmony and its role in segmenting speech’, Cognition, 171, pp. 95–107.

Tomasello, M. (2005) Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Harvard: Harvard University Press.