Collocations withacquisition

These are words often used in combination withacquisition.

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acquisition of territory
The fact of success by a people in excessive acquisition of territory carries no higher guarantee of eternal approval.
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bilingual acquisition
Bilingual acquisition occurs in different sociocultural contexts, and it entails different language combinations and modalities (signed and oral).
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lexical acquisition
Specifying the role of semantics in children's lexical acquisition and naming : evidence from typical and atypical populations.
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phonological acquisition
The author draws some crosslinguistic comparisons and highlights the effect of hearing impairment on phonological acquisition.
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proposed acquisition
This proposed acquisition trajectory accounts for the data presented here.
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rapid acquisition
The scanning method allows the rapid acquisition of images covering areas at the square centimeter level and was verified elsewhere.
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vocabulary acquisition
Cognitive components related to vocabulary acquisition have been the focus of relatively little research.
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