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Kennedy, Barbara L. – Language Learning, 1988
Assumes that adult second language learners cannot achieve the same degree of proficiency in a second language as children learning a second language. An information-processing approach is presented, and the aspects of utilization, faulty or incomplete declarative knowledge, and limited working memory space are used to account for deficiencies in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Child Language, Language Processing
1980
A brief summary of research findings which support the hypothesis of scriptal knowledge structures in children and which indicates that children use such structures in ways very similar to those of adults is provided in this paper. Research reveals that when children as young as three are asked to tell what they know about events, they tend to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Interpretive Skills, Language Patterns
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Beckman, Mary E.; Edwards, Jan – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence from studies on adults' language processing and children's language acquisition that the lexicon is at the core of grammatical generalizations at several levels of representation. Proposes that phonological acquisition might provide the bootstrapping into grammatical generalization in general. Concludes that age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children