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Cotton, 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
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Golinkoff, 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
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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
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Van 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