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ERIC Number: EJ086586
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1973
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Syntax Acquisition: Impact of Experimental Variation in Adult Verbal Interaction with the Child
Nelson, Keith E.; And Others
Child Development, 44, 3, 497-504, Sep 73
Sessions of verbal interaction (N=22) significantly facilitated syntax acquisition by 32- to 40-month-olds. In response to children's sentences, experimenters replied with recast sentences that maintained the same meaning but provided new syntactic information. A selective bias in these replies was matched by selectively stronger facilitation in terms of verb measures. (ST)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Sentences, Syntax, Verbal Communication, Young Children
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