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Hart, Betty – Journal of Child Language, 1975
A study was conducted in which a series of stories was used to teach six four- to five-year-olds to identify objects as "nouns," attributes of objects as "adjectives," and actions as "verbs." All the children appeared to have well-formed semantic fields for the three form classes. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
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Gleitman, Lila R.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Rebuts an article that claimed to overthrow the authors' 1969 findings. It is demonstrated that the original study concerned syntactic organization and that interpretation of it as bearing on comprehension is largely unjustified. Comments on their prior work in light of new developments in child language are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Duchan, 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
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Limber, John – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Inferences about linguistic competence in children are typically based on spontaneous speech. Children's use of complex object and adverbial noun phrase is seen as a reflection of pragmatic factors. Similar adult patterns indicate children's lack of subject clauses may be due to the nature of spontaneous speech. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns