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Peer reviewedGathercole, Virginia C. – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Analysis of 12 Scottish and 12 American 3- to 6-year-olds interacting with adults indicated that, because Scottish adults use the present perfect tense more frequently in their speech to children than American adults do, Scottish children use the tense in their speech long before American children do. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, English, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
