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Is Before Really Easier to Understand than After?
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Goodz, Naomi S. – Child Development, 1982
It was hypothesized that children may experience more difficulty in interpreting "after" than "before" because the sentence typically used in comprehension tasks facilitates dependence on sentence-processing strategies effective with "before" sentences but only partially effective with "after" sentences. For…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
The Concepts of Topic and Subject in First Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese.
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Chien, Yu-Chin; Lust, Barbara – Child Development, 1985
Reveals that young children acquiring Mandarin Chinese differentiate subject from topic, even though Chinese is a "topic-prominent" language. Data are based on results of a standardized, elicited imitation test of 95 Chinese children in Taiwan. Subjects between 2 years, 6 months and 5 years of age responded to coordinate as well as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition