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DiGennaro, Melissa – 1977
The paper provides a brief discussion of research conducted in child language acquisition at the University of California at Davis in the winter and spring of 1977. The research was directed at children's comprehension of WHY questions. It was an attempt to define when and how children come to understand abstract concepts, such as WHY questions.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages)
