ABSTRACT
The counterfeit is poorly imitated after you (Shakespeare) Sonnets liii
2.1 Introduction
One of the most commonplace observations in the psycholinguistic literature is that many young children often repeat utterances addressed to them. Just as commonplace are generalizations concerning the importance of this behaviour to the development of language in the child. We have, on the one extreme, those who consider all linguistic knowledge to be obtained through this vehicle, and on the other extreme, we have those who place no importance whatsoever to the repetitions of young children.
