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Peer reviewedSinclair, H.; Bronckart, J. P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1972
Analysis showed that the majority of subjects applied a coherent strategy to three-word utterances presented in different word orders, and confirmed the existence of two primitive strategies. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Universals
Download full textHickmann, Maya; And Others – 1989
A study examined the development of discourse cohesion in first language acquisition within a functional and cross-linguistic perspective. The analyses focused on how children introduce new referents in discourse across four languages: English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. The data base consists of narratives produced by children between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Coherence
