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Suzman, Susan M. – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
A study of the late acquisition of the passive in Zulu used data from transcripts of naturalistic speech gathered in a longitudinal study of several children's speech development between 1.10 and 3.6 years of age. It was hypothesized that the productivity of the passive construction in Zulu is a factor facilitating acquisition. A range of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar
Stromswold, Karin; And Others – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two experiments were conducted on the use and combination of three cues that differentiate active from passive verbs: a form of the auxiliary "be," the morphology of the passive participle of the verb, and the case-making preposition "by." In the first experiment, 59 children aged 2.9 to 5.10 years were asked to interpret…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Download full textPfaff, Carol W. – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
A study of the acquisition of Turkish and German by immigrant children in West Germany addressed three issues: (1) the role of cognitive development and age of learning in the process of language acquisition, (2) the role of transfer between languages, and (3) the effects of greater or lesser contact with native speakers of the two languages being…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
