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ERIC Number: EJ354571
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Parental Responses to Grammatical and Ungrammatical Child Utterances.
Penner, Sharon G.
Child Development, v58 n2 p376-84 Apr 1987
Parental responses to grammatically correct and incorrect child utterances were observed in free-play interactions of two groups, each containing 10 parents and their language learning children. Group 1: 21-26 months old, with MLU's between 2 and 2.5 morphemes. Group 2: 34-40 months old, with MLU's between 3 and 3.5 morphemes. (Author/BN)
Descriptors: Grammatical Acceptability, Language Acquisition, Parent Influence, Play, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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