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Peer reviewedFerreira, Fernanda; Morrison, Frederick J. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Two groups of children were tested at ages five, six, and seven to determine metalinguistic knowledge of the syntactic subject of a sentence. Found that five-year olds had difficulty repeating the pronomial and longest subjects; ability to isolate pronouns improved with age; and ability to identify longest subjects improved with increased…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Processing, Metalinguistics, Nouns
