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Pearl, Lisa S. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
Parametric systems have been proposed as models of how humans represent knowledge about language, motivated in part as a way to explain children's rapid acquisition of linguistic knowledge. Given this, it seems reasonable to examine if children with knowledge of parameters could in fact acquire the adult system from the data available to them.…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Phonology, Grammar, Knowledge Representation
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Verhoeven, Ludo; van Hell, Janet G. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study examined the representation of knowledge in text writing in 20 ten-year-old children and 20 adults in the Netherlands. The research analyzed the use of clause linking devices to compose larger text units. Special attention was given to the use of causal relational markers and the extent to which causal relations within the texts matched…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Childrens Writing, Form Classes (Languages), Knowledge Representation