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ERIC Number: EJ387618
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Animacy Constraints on Preschool Children's Acquisition of Syntax.
Lempert, Henrietta
Child Development, v60 n1 p237-45 Feb 1989
Investigates whether patient animacy affected the acquisition of the passive construction of syntax of 32 children aged two-five years. Results indicate that children who were taught the passive with animate patients produced more passives in the teaching phase than did comparable children who received inanimate patients. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Syntax, Verbs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Animacy; Inanimacy; Passives