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Mainela-Arnold, Elina; Evans, Julia L. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This study tested the predictions of the procedural deficit hypothesis by investigating the relationship between sequential statistical learning and two aspects of lexical ability, lexical-phonological and lexical-semantic, in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Participants included forty children (ages 8;5-12;3), twenty…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Child Language, Semantics, Correlation
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Wray, Alison – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Examines the assumptions behind three attempts to introduce formulaic language into second language teaching. Contextualizes the discussion by briefly outlining the nature of formulaic language as a phenomenon. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Grammar, Idioms
Shore, Cecilia; Bauer, Patricia – 1983
The relationship between language and symbolic play was studied in a sample of children identified as referential in style (multiple noun utterances exceeded pronoun or no-noun utterances), as compared with a sample identified as expressive in style (pronoun utterances or no-noun utterances exceeded multiple noun utterances). Children were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Testing, Expressive Language, Individual Differences