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Peer reviewedMatthei, Edward H. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Two experiments indicating that children's linguistic generalizational biases change from a semantically-based system to a syntactical-structural system provide evidence for a semantic-relational bias in children's early grammars and support the notion that children's generalizational biases shift from a semantic-relational basis to a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Language Acquisition
Direct linkBerman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Journal of Child Language, 2004
The paper examines two types of texts, personal experience narratives and expository discussions, dealing with the shared theme of interpersonal conflict. Both were produced by the same 80 subjects, participants in a crosslinguistic study on developing literacy: gradeschoolers aged 9;0 to 10;0, twelve-to-thirteen-year-old junior high school…
Descriptors: Age, Verbs, Grammar, Discourse Analysis
