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Children's Comprehension of "Because" in Reversible and Non-Reversible Sentences.
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Emerson, Harriet F. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
This article discusses a study designed to ascertain the comprehension of the role of "because" in a sentence in children between the ages of 5;8 and 10;11. (CFM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Developmental Production of Utterances from a Series of Lexemes
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Kail, Michele; Segui, Juan – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In this experiment, children were given three words (a triplet made up of two nouns and one verb) and were asked to produce an utterance with them. The results were analyzed in terms of word order chosen and age of child. (NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Agent-Patient Word-Order Preference in the Acquisition of Tagalog
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Segalowitz, Norman S.; Galang, Rosita G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In a study, Tagalog-speaking children, 3-, 5-, and 7-year olds, demonstrated better mastery of patient-focus (passive) than agent-focus (active) sentence structure. These results were attributed to the children's strategy of interpreting the first noun of a sentence to be the agent of the action. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development