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Peer reviewedSegalowitz, Norman S.; Galang, Rosita G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In a study, Tagalog-speaking children, 3-, 5-, and 7-year olds, demonstrated better mastery of patient-focus (passive) than agent-focus (active) sentence structure. These results were attributed to the children's strategy of interpreting the first noun of a sentence to be the agent of the action. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
