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Peer reviewedBraine, Martin D. S.; Wells, Robin S. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
Five experiments were performed in which nursery school children were taught to identify persons, animals, or objects in pictures that took the nominative, objective, or locative case in sentences about the pictures. Inferences are made about categories in children's thinking including animate, and actor and agent. (CTM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Classification, Form Classes (Languages)
