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Guerriero, A. M. Sonia; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Kuriyama, Yoko – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The present research investigated whether children's referential choices for verb arguments are motivated by pragmatic features of discourse referents across different developmental stages, not only for children learning null argument languages but also for those learning overt argument languages. In Study 1, the form (null, pronominal, or…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Verbs, Linguistics
McCabe, Patrick P. – 1977
The creative oral language elicited from 45 preoperational and 40 concrete operational first grade students was analyzed to study the relationship between cognitive development and the types of case relationships produced. Each child's language was analyzed for eight noun/verb relationships, including state, process, action, experience, location,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development