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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
Download full textLempert, Henrietta – 1981
Preschoolers' ability to understand grammatical relations in passives and to generalize was studied using animate referents. Three- to five-year-old children were taught to produce passive sentence descriptions of events in which animacy of the actor and acted-on object were varied. After pretesting to determine passive sentence comprehension, the…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
