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Min, Myungsook, Jun, Jongsup, & Lee, Sun-Young. 2014. A Study on the English-speaking Children’s Acquisition of Adjectival Compounds Based on CHILDES Corpus. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 39-3, 405 -425. This Study investigates English-speaking children’s acquisition of adjectival compounds based on the CHILDES(Child Language Data Exchange System) Corpus. The type and token frequencies and type per token ratios(TTRs) for adjectival compounds including compound nouns and compound adjectives were analyzed with reference to children’s age groups. The results showed that children started using adjectival compounds as early as at age one and that the developmental pattern of the adjectival compounds conformed to the general principles of word formation repertoire such as semantic transparency, formal simplicity and productivity. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies & Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)