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Cowley, Stephen J. – Language Sciences, 2001
Reviewing the language instinct debate, this article identifies generativist views with the baby's proverbial bathwater. Suggests that instead of analyzing language into form-based units, it should be treated as an aspect of social life deriving from a capacity to contextualize experience. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Schlesinger, I. M.; Stemmer, Nathan – Language Sciences, 1975
Schlesinger defends his theory that grammar is acquired not merely through linguistic input but by observing that utterances are paired with appropriate situations, thereby learning the agent/ action relationship. Stemmer argues that word order learned by children is semantically determined. (CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
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Dopke, Susanne – Language Sciences, 1999
Presents longitudinal data from simultaneously bilingual German-English children with respect to development of negation and syntactically related modal particles. Data provide evidence for both language separation and cross-linguistic influence. Relative order of verbs and sequential modifiers appears not to be a principled syntactic operation,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, English