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Journal of Child Language

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Hopmann, Marita R.	1
Maratsos, Michael P.	1

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Syntactic and Semantic Factors in the Acquisition of Before and After

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Coker, Pamela L. – Journal of Child Language, 1978

In testing kindergartners and first graders in their comprehension of the words "before" and "after," it was found that when temporal terms are acquired, they are first used as prepositions and then as subordinating conjunctions. (Author/NCR)

Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

The Development of Vague Modifiers in the Language of Pre-School Children

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Berndt, Rita Sloan; Caramazza, Alfonso – Journal of Child Language, 1978

Preschool children's comprehension of the adverbial modifiers "very" and "sort of" was experimentally investigated in 64 children. (Author/NCR)

Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

A Developmental Study of Factivity and Negation in Complex Syntax

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Hopmann, Marita R.; Maratsos, Michael P. – Journal of Child Language, 1978

This experiment used two groups of preschoolers and one group of young grade-schoolers to test for their comprehension of presuppositions and negation in complex syntax. (NCR)

Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition