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Mothers pay more attention to the correct communication of content than to the linguistic accuracy of their utterances in addressing their language acquiring children.
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Why is it important?
The implications of thesis finding may prove important for foreign language acquisition
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This page is a summary of: The 'Semantic Primacy Principle' in Motherese, Cahiers de l Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, December 1986, Peeters Publishers,
DOI: 10.2143/cill.12.3.2017073.
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