VI. DIFFERENCES IN EARLY VERB GROWTH AND USE AS A FUNCTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD, CHILD, AND VERB.

CHILDREN'S language; VERBS; GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE acquisition; INTERPERSONAL communication in children; CHILD development; CHILD psychology; DEVELOPMENTAL biology; DEVELOPMENTAL psychobiology

The article investigates the differences among the periods of child development and among verbs in detail. It focuses on the interrelations among the measured properties of their verb use for further tests of verb development theories. It also looks at the grammatical flexibility of early verb use and the differences between light and heavy verbs in pathbreaker. Study shows that only a few children manifest conservative before flexible verb use. This suggests that early flexible verb use is widely circulated and not limited to late stage of development.