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In both languages, such coinages seem to first appear around age two, and in both, the coinages seem designed to fill lexical gaps.
Speakers presumably show a similar preference in their own coinages.
I then argue that productivity must be assessed from use in coinages.
Evidence that they do comes from regularizations of inflections and from coinages.
Of the two coinages we commonly exchange and which are liable to debasement, language is far more damaging than money.
Systematic trends in spontaneous coinages first suggested that children apply general acquisitional principles in word formation.
Actual coinages then become the criterion for measuring productivity.
Such coinages form the topic of this and the next chapter.
In fact, these coinages accounted for two-fifths of the novel nouns produced by four- and five-year-olds.
Such uses were rare compared with intransitive coinages.
The forms that appear more frequently in coinages are thereby considered the most productive of the options available.
There, children should produce few early coinages since it takes time for them to analyze the options that are available.
Overall, simplicity should show up early in children's coinages provided the language offers simple options for constructing new words.
The most important generalisation about these coinages is that they cannot be improved upon.
How many of these 20th-century coinages can you identify and define?
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