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Sheldon, Amy – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974
Research is reported in which children were tested for their comprehension of four types of sentences with relative clauses. The Parallel Function Hypothesis is proposed, and implications for adult grammar are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Nakanishi, Yasuko; Owada, Kenjiro – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Grammar, Imitation
Kenney, Terrence J.; Wolfe, Jean – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Preliminary version of this article presented at the meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1971. Research and preparation of the paper supported in part by an Intramural Grant from the Regents of the University of California to T. Kenney. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Experiments, Language Acquisition
Amidon, Arlene; Carey, Peter – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Experiments
Waters, Harriet Salatas – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Descriptive grammars based on sets of rewrite rules were constructed to summarize the structure and organization of 120 entries in a second grade student's journal of class news. These rules illuminated the relationship between experience, abstraction, and generation of structure, and the use of structure to express complex thoughts. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, Elementary Education, Expository Writing
