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light they shed on three types of factors that interact in child language
development studies: methodological issues, language-specific effects,
and general developmental principles. By taking all three factors into
account, one can better understand both commonalities and differ-
ences in the results of the two studies and, ultimately, something more
about the complexities of the acquisiton of word-formation processes.
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