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Peer reviewedMills, John; Hemsley, Gordon – Language and Speech, 1976
Shows how subjects' varying levels of academic achievement influenced their judgments of the grammatical acceptability of simple sentences, suggesting that differing levels of deep structure accompany differing levels of education. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Deep Structure, Evaluation Criteria
Peer reviewedHamayan, Else; And Others – Language and Speech, 1977
Finds developmental differences in the abilities of eight-year-old, eleven-year-old, and adult second language learners to repeat certain grammatical sentence structures. (RL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Developmental Stages
Peer reviewedAbbeduto, Leonard – Language and Speech, 1985
The role of syntactic/semantic structure in the motor programing of speech by five-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and adults was investigated. Repetition durations were found to be shorter for simple than for complex sentences at all ages. However, linguistic complexity affected durational variability only for adults. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition
