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Peer reviewedLempert, Henrietta – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1984
Reports outcomes of three experiments in which children were taught a sentence form that they did not as yet understand. Investigates whether (1) acquisition of word order relations for sentence form would be affected by pragmatic ordering principles and (2) whether referent animacy would be included in children's rules for word order. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Word Order
Peer reviewedBohannon, John Neil, III; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Reports two studies which found a relationship between awareness of word order in sentences and reading readiness and achievement for children in kindergarten through third grade. Suggests this type of metalinguistic awareness may be important to early reading because it helps children to detect meaningful relationships between words. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
