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Ingram, David – Language Learning, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Morphemes, Phrase Structure
Morehead, Donald; Ingram, David – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1970
Language samples of 15 young normal children actively engaged in learning base syntax were compared with samples of 15 linguistically deviant children of a comparable linguistic level. Mean number of morphemes per utterance was used to determine linguistic level. The two groups were matched according to five linguistic levels previously…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Ingram, David – 1970
This paper, based on Rosenbaum's (1967) grammar of adult English, attempts to apply ideas of deep structure and transformations to child grammar. The main rules predicated include phrase structure rules, segment structure rules, contextual features, and transformational rules. In this approach, the role of transformations is to segment and place…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Grammar, Language Acquisition