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Frank, Robert – Cognition, 1998
Demonstrates that an understanding of children's language-acquisition difficulties with a wide range of syntactic constructions should be derived from limitations on the child's ability to deal with processing load and formal representational complexity. Maintains this can be done only in the context of a view of syntactic representation…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Grammar, Individual Development

Moore, Timothy E.; Biederman, Irving – Cognition, 1979
The speed at which sentences with various kinds of violations could be rejected was studied. Compatible with the sequential model was the finding that noun-verb and adjective-noun double violations did not result in shorter reaction times than noun-verb single violations, although double violations were judged less acceptable. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Grammar, Higher Education