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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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Erreich, Anne; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Presents an outline for a theory of syntax acquisition, surveys other approaches to language acquisition, and addresses the following methodological issues: (1) the relevance of linguistic theory to the model; (2) how the model is tested; and (3) the domain of the theory. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals
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Cook, V. J. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This paper reports an investigation into the acquisition of indirect object constructions by English children aged 5-10. Sentences having a prepositional "to" phrase containing the indirect object, and following the direct object, were acquired before sentences where the indirect object preceded the direct object. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Phrase Structure
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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