<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Dear info-childes members,<BR>
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A while back I posted a request for references to literature on the acquisition of possessive -s. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who responded, I was provided with a number of references and useful comments. There follows a list of references gathered in response to my request.<BR>
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Maria McGuckian<BR>
Linguistics, School of Communication<BR>
University of Ulster<BR>
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Berko, J. (1958). "The child's learning of English morphology." <I>Word</I> 14: 150-177.<BR>
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Brown, R. (1973). <I>A first language: The early stages</I>. London, Allen & Unwin.<BR>
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de Villiers, J. G. and P. A. de Villiers (1972). "A cross-sectional study of the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in child speech." <I>Journal of Psycholinguistic</I> <I>Research</I> 2(3): 267-278.<BR>
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Golinkoff, R. M. & Markessini, J. (1980). "'Mommy sock': The child's understanding of possession as expressed in two-noun phrases". <I>Journal of Child Language</I>, 7, 119-136<BR>
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Leonard, L.B. (1995). "Functional categories in the grammars of children with Specific language impairment". <I>Journal of Speech and Hearing Research</I>, 38:1270-1283.<BR>
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Peters, A.M. & Menn, L. (1993). "False starts and filler syllables: Ways to learn grammatical morphemes"<I> Language, </I> 69 (4):742-777.<BR>
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Gavruseva, E. & Thornton, R. (2001). "Getting it right: Acquisition of Whose-Questions in Child English". <I>Language Acquisition</I>, l9 (3):229-267.<BR>
(On how the possessive -s morpheme shows up in whose-questions).<BR>
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van de Craats, I., Corver, N. & van Hout, R. (2000). "Conservation of grammatical knowledge: on the acquisition of possessive noun phrases by Turkish and Moroccan learners of Dutch". <I>Linguistics</I>, 38:221-314.<BR>
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Penner, Z. & Weissenborn, J. (1996). "Strong continuity, parameter setting and the trigger hierarchy: on the acquisition of DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German". In, <I>Generative perspectives on language acquisition</I>, Clahsen, H. (ed.), 161-200 Amsterdam, Benjamins.<BR>
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