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Peer reviewedCotton, Eleanor G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Discusses nominal-pronominal reduplication (NPR) in the language of children ages seven and nine in four situations. Younger children produced more NPR; all children produced little NPR talking to their peers and increasing amounts talking to adults. Examples are given and analyzed. (EJS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedMaratsos, Michael; Kuczaj, Stanley A. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article reviews and criticizes Fay's particular transformational descriptions as implausible. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedClark, Ruth – Journal of Child Language, 1977
This paper reviews evidence for and against imitation as a factor in the acquisition of syntax. It is concluded that the effects of imitation of children's speech are too pervasive to be dismissed as irrelevant. An important question is how a child extracts grammatical information from imitated sequences. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Grammar, Imitation
Peer reviewedFurrow, David; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on a study investigating the relationship between children's linguistic environment and language acquisition. In particular, the study examined the effect of mothers' speech on subsequent child speech. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Environmental Influences, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedBridges, Allyne – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Preschool children aged 2.6 to 5.0 were presented with reversible active and passive sentences in four comprehension test settings. The children's response patterns were analyzed in terms of individual response patterns. Extralinguistic cues accounted for the most common patterns. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGolinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Markessini, Joan – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Thirty children with a mean length of utterance ranging from 1.00 to 4 and an age range of 1.7 to 5.5 were tested for comprehension of two-noun possessive phrases. Three types of possessive relationships were used to uncover children's knowledge of the semantics and syntax of English possession. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Determinants of the Acquisition Order of Grammatical Morphemes: A Re-Analysis and Re-Interpretation.
Peer reviewedBlock, Eric M.; Kessel, Frank S. – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Reports on research that sought to clarify Brown's (1973) research on acquisition order, syntactic complexity, semantic complexity, and the relationship among the three. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedDuchan, Judith; Lund, Nancy J. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This study is an attempt to investigate the efficacy of using existing semantic relations categories for understanding how children comprehend the verb "with" + noun construction. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedVan Der Lely, Heather K. J. – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Investigates the linguistic abilities of a subgroup of grammatical specific language impaired (SLI) children, focusing on the use of referential expressions in a narrative discourse and providing insight into the underlying nature of grammatical SLI. Findings support the hypothesized modular nature of grammatical SLI children's underlying…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ambiguity, Discourse Analysis, Grammar
