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Peer reviewedValian, Virginia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Determined whether young children's inconsistent production of sentence subjects was due to limitations in their knowledge of English or in their ability to access and use that knowledge. Subjects were 19 young children from 1 to 2 years old. Found that processing limitations, rather than defective grammar, explain the missing subjects in very…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Imitation, Infants, Knowledge Level
