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Peer reviewedOshima-Takane, Yuriko – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Reports on a study of a normally developing boy who made pronominal errors for about 10 months. Comprehension and production data clearly indicate that the child persistently made pronominal errors because of semantic confusion in the use of first- and second-person pronouns. (28 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Children, Comprehension, Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedBridges, Allyne – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Preschool children aged 2.6 to 5.0 were presented with reversible active and passive sentences in four comprehension test settings. The children's response patterns were analyzed in terms of individual response patterns. Extralinguistic cues accounted for the most common patterns. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSteffensen, Margaret S. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
A phenomenon called "pragmatic variation" is discussed as a child's individual system of behavior in response to a question the child doesn't understand but realizes that he must verbalize an answer to. (NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
