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Peer reviewedMarwit, Samuel J.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Elementary School Students, Grammar
Peer reviewedBeckman, Mary E.; Edwards, Jan – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence from studies on adults' language processing and children's language acquisition that the lexicon is at the core of grammatical generalizations at several levels of representation. Proposes that phonological acquisition might provide the bootstrapping into grammatical generalization in general. Concludes that age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
