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Frizelle, Pauline; Thompson, Paul; Duta, Mihaela; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Language Learning, 2019
We examined the effect of two methods of assessment--multiple-choice sentence-picture matching and an animated sentence-verification task--on typically developing children's understanding of relative clauses. A sample of children between the ages of 3 years 6 months and 4 years 11 months took part in the study (N = 103). Results indicated that (a)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Testing, Syntax, Comparative Analysis
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Boyd, Jeremy K.; Gottschalk, Erin A.; Goldberg, Adele E. – Language Learning, 2009
All natural languages rely on sentence-level form-meaning associations (i.e., linking rules) to encode propositional content about who did what to whom. Although these associations are recognized as foundational in many different theoretical frameworks (Goldberg, 1995, 2006; Lidz, Gleitman, & Gleitman, 2003; Pinker, 1984, 1989) and are--at least…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Task Analysis, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition