ABSTRACT
The rate at which the child acquires language and his ability to observe the rules of grammar are not the only aspects of the child's use of language that have fascinated linguists and psychologists during recent years. Above all, it is the tremendous versatility with which the young child uses language to produce utterances that he is likely never to have heard before that has come in for a good deal of discussion. This versatility has been described as 'creativeness' on the part of the child, since he continually produces utterances that he has neither heard before nor produced before.
