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Direct linkKidd, Evan; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2006
We present empirical data showing that the relative frequency with which a verb normally appears in a syntactic construction predicts young children's ability to remember and repeat sentences instantiating that construction. Children aged 2;10-5;8 years were asked to repeat grammatical and ungrammatical sentential complement sentences (e.g., "I…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentences, Language Acquisition, Grammar
