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Vasil, Jared; Moore, Charlotte; Tomasello, Michael – First Language, 2023
Shared intentionality theory posits that at age 3, children expand their conception of plural agency to include 3- or more-person groups. We sought to determine whether this conceptual shift is detectable in children's pronoun use. We report the results of a series of Bayesian hierarchical generative models fitted to 479 English-speaking…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
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Tomasello, Michael; Herron, Carol – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Compared two methods for correcting transfer errors in the foreign language classroom. Eight commonly encountered English-to-French transfer errors were identified and randomly assigned to one or two teaching conditions for one class section; each error was assigned to the opposite condition for the other section. (29 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English, French