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Getting There Faster: 18-and 24-Month-Old Infants' Use of Function Words to Determine Reference
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Kedar, Yarden; Casasola, Marianella; Lust, Barbara – Child Development, 2006
Infants of 18 and 24 months acquiring English were tested in a preferential looking task on their ability to detect ungrammaticalities caused by manipulating a single function word in sentences. Infants heard grammatical sentences in which the determiner "the" preceded a target noun, as well as three ungrammatical conditions in which "the" was…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Infants, Grammar, Sentence Structure
Orientation to Language in Ukrainian-English Bilingual Children.
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Cummins, James; Mulcahy, Robert – Child Development, 1978
Investigated the influence of Ukrainian-English bilingualism on first and third grade children's awareness of the arbitrary nature of word-referent relationships and on their ability to analyze linguistic input. (JMB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, English