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Jensen De Lopez, Kristine; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This study examines the comprehension and production of subject and object relative clauses (SRCs, ORCs) by children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. The purpose is to investigate whether relative clauses are problematic for Danish children with SLI and to compare errors with those produced by TD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Impairments, Comprehension
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Bavin, Edith L.; Shopen, Timothy A. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a part of a study on children's acquisition of Warlpiri, an aboriginal language spoken in central Australia, which aimed to find out at what age the children respond consistently to particular word orders and case frames for simple transitive sentences. Makes comparisons with the acquisition of Turkish transitive clauses. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Platt, Carole Bultler; MacWhinney, Brian – Journal of Child Language, 1983
When asked to judge as correct or incorrect three categories of sentences (those with errors similar to their own patterns, those with common "baby errors," and correct sentences), four-year-olds made significantly fewer corrections of errors similar to their own, suggesting that children learn their own errors. (MSE)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Expressive Language
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Nakayama, Mineharu – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Sentences evoked from three- to five-year-olds (N=16), analyzed for errors (particularly copying-without-deletion), showed errors when: the subject noun phrase (NP) contained a relative clause, the relative clause had an object gap, and the relative clause was long. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns