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Some Attributes of Adjectives Used by Young Children
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Nelson, Katherine – Cognition, 1976
Analysis of 24 spontaneous speech samples from children at 24 and 30 months revealed a correlated progression in the form, function, and meaning of adjective modifiers used with increased language development. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Transformations, Basic Operations and Language Acquisition
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Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others – Cognition, 1978
The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition