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Direct linkTurnbull, Kathryn; Deacon, S. Helene; Bird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining – Journal of Child Language, 2011
This study tracked the order in which ten beginning spellers (M age = 5 ; 05; SD = 0.21 years) mastered the correct spellings of common inflectional suffixes in English. Spellings from children's journals from kindergarten and grade 1 were coded. An inflectional suffix was judged to be mastered when children spelled it accurately in 90 percent of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Spelling, Grammar, Oral Language
Warlaumont, Anne S.; Jarmulowicz, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Acquisition of regular inflectional suffixes is an integral part of grammatical development in English and delayed acquisition of certain inflectional suffixes is a hallmark of language impairment. We investigate the relationship between input frequency and grammatical suffix acquisition, analyzing 217 transcripts of mother-child (ages 1 ; 11-6 ;…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Impairments, Caregivers
Peer reviewedKuczaj, Stan A., II – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Research
The Acquisition of Inflections in Portuguese: a Study of the Development of Person Markers on Verbs.
Peer reviewedSimoes, Maria Cecilia Perroni; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on a study of the acquisition of personal inflections in Portuguese, and presents an analysis of the speech of one of the children followed in the longitudinal study. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedLayton, Thomas L.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Ten objects were used to assess comprehension, production, and imitation of comparative and superlative suffixes in 100 children ranging in age from two years, six months, to four years, six months. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Age, Child Language
Peer reviewedBates, Elizabeth; Rankin, Jane – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on research on the acquisition of adjectives vs inflectional endings in Italian children. Patterns resulting from a longitudinal study involving two children and an experiment involving 84 children are compared to patterns of adults participating in the latter experiment. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Child Language, Grammar
Peer reviewedRavid, Dorit – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Hebrew-speaking fourth and seventh graders from lower middle-class backgrounds were tested on gender markings of numerals in two situations involving monitored and unmonitored situations. Results indicated the disappearance of gender agreement in Modern Hebrew numerals and a re-analysis of numeral suffixes by speakers. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grammar
Download full textSafonov, Nikolai A. – 1971
This paper is based on an investigation of an increasing tendency in modern German to use the second person singular imperative without the suffix "e." All major works on German grammar, including the standard reference books on the subject, require this suffix for all weak and most strong verbs. (Those verbs which change their stem vowel from "e"…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), German, Grammar, Language Acquisition
