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Direct linkCrain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language
Peer reviewedMoore, Timothy E. – Language and Speech, 1975
Data obtained from seventh graders does not support Chomsky's hierarchy of language rules, whereby degrees of sentence grammaticality can be assigned to ungrammatical sentences. (RB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 7, Grammar, Language Research
Peer reviewedLandon, Sarah J.; Sommers, Ronald K. – Language and Speech, 1979
When 20 highly talkative and 20 much less talkative preschool children were measured for articulation, grammar, receptive syntax, and sentence repetition, the performances of the highly talkative children were significantly superior on all measures. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Communication Research, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
