The Encoding of Tense and Aspect by Three- to Five-Year-Old Children.

McShane, John; Whittaker, Stephen

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Encoding of Tense and Aspect by Three- to Five-Year-Old Children.

McShane, John; Whittaker, Stephen

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v45 n1 p52-70 Feb 1988

Three experiments investigated children's acquisition of tense and aspect. Children aged 3-6 years watched and described actions of puppets. The vast majority used appropriate tense, with 3-year-olds using mainly simple past and 4-year-olds encoding most situations with the past progressive. (SKC)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Tenses (Grammar), Young Children

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