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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Animacy and the Acquisition of "Tough" Adjectives
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Becker, Misha – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
This article reports on two novel word-learning experiments examining children's use of subject animacy to categorize novel adjectives as either "tough" adjectives (e.g., "easy," "hard") or control adjectives ("afraid," "eager"). In Experiment 1, a group of 4- to 7-year-olds watched videos…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Video Technology
Task Effects in the Interpretation of Pronouns
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Sanoudaki, Eirini; Varlokosta, Spyridoula – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
Children acquiring a range of languages have difficulties in the interpretation of personal pronouns. Ongoing debates in the relevant literature concern the extent to which different pronoun types are subject to this phenomenon, as well as the role of methodology in relevant research. In this study, we use two different experimental tasks to…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Greek, Role, Research Methodology
A Cross-Linguistic Perspective on the Acquisition of Manner of Articulation Contrasts in the Productions of Dutch and German Children
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Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Fikkert, Paula – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
The present article investigates the acquisition of Manner of Articulation (MoA) contrasts in child language production. We analyzed spontaneous longitudinal speech data of four German and six Dutch 1- to 3-year-olds. The data suggest that the acquisition of MoA contrasts is influenced by various co-occurrence constraints at the word level.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, German