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Mulford, Randa – 1983
The performance of Icelandic-speaking children on the comprehension of Icelandic pronoun gender was investigated. Eighty children ranging in age from 4-8 years were tested. It was hypothesized that if children rely primarily on formal information for determing grammatical gender, they should perform equally well on both natural and syntactic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Pronouns
Cohen-Bacri, Jean – Linguistique, 1978
Children between the ages of 6 and 11 learn to understand and use the relative pronouns "qui" and "que." The closer the subordinate clause is to favorite word order, the easier it is for the child. (MLA)
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Language Acquisition, Pronouns
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McKee, Cecile; McDaniel, Dana – Language Acquisition, 2001
Reports elicited production and grammaticality judgment data from three experiments on the status of resumptive pronouns in English. Participants were children and adults. Examined children's acquisition of syntax in light of development of linguistic processing systems. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, English, Grammar
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Minkoff, Seth – Language Acquisition, 2003
Reports results of an acquisition experiment with a group of Spanish-speaking children regarding their knowledge of a semantic restriction that prevents a referring expression from coreferring with a pronoun in certain syntactic configurations if its referent lacks consciousness. Sixteen children participated in a modified Truth-Value Judgment…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Pronouns, Semantics, Spanish Speaking
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Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Benaroya, Sigmund – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
The study of four autistic children, aged six-nine, found support for the hypothesis that persistent pronominal errors by autistic children can be explained by failure to observe pronouns in speech addressed to another person, an aspect of language development in normal children. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Autism, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
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Foster-Cohen, Susan H. – Journal of Child Language, 1994
A set of predictions based on Reinhart's (1986) Theory of Relevance are evaluated against published results of tests of Binding Theory. Relevance Theory provides a means of understanding constraints on testing syntactic knowledge. Pragmatic factors must be systematically controlled in any evaluation of syntactic knowledge. (Contains 22…
Descriptors: Child Language, Context Effect, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Avrutin, Sergey; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Acquisition, 2000
Examined Russian-speaking children's knowledge of syntactic and discourse-related restrictions on the interpretation of pronouns in subjunctive clauses. Eighteen children (4-5 years of age) participated in a truth-value judgment task. In constructions in which syntactic knowledge is implicated, children's performance is very similar to that of…
Descriptors: Adults, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Pronouns
Wexler, Kenneth; Chien, Yu-Chin – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two studies examined the development of major properties of reflexives and pronouns in English language acquisition by applying the theory of binding of reflexives and pronouns to potential antecedents in the sentence. The children ranged in age from 2.6 to 6.6 years. In the first experiment, the children were presented with two pictures and were…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Tyler, Lorraine K. – 1984
An experiment was undertaken with young children to look at the relative contribution of discourse constraints, subject anaphors, and the semantics of verbs to the integration of an utterance into its discourse representation. Children aged 5, 7, and 10 years heard a series of short stories, each consisting of three sentences and an incomplete…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence, Listening Comprehension
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Hyams, Nina – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Argues that the data used to claim that morphosyntactic development of Italian-speaking children are inconsistent with nativist, parameter-setting models of language development is irrelevant to the specific hypothesis being evaluated. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Italian, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Nelson, Katherine – Cognitive Psychology, 1975
Transcripts of 24 spontaneous speech samples from 2 year old children are analyzed for use of nouns and pronouns in sentences. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Nouns
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Berkovits, Rochele; Wigodsky, Miriam – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports results of a longitudinal study testing the acquisition of restrictions of the use of pronouns in children, first as 9 year olds and later as 11 year olds. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Hebrew, Language Acquisition
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Kaper, Willem – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Contradicts a previous assertion by C. Tanz that children commit substitution errors usually using objective pronoun forms for nominative ones. Examples from Dutch and German provide evidence that substitutions are made in both directions. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), German
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Scholes, Robert J. – Language and Speech, 1981
A comprehension task employing English animate third person pronouns was run on 100 children from three to seven years of age. Results show that comphrehension of forms beyond chance level first appears at age five, with continuing improvement through ages six and seven. Mastery of gender distinction preceded number and case. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
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Matsuoka, Kazumi – Language Acquisition, 1997
Extends the study of children's knowledge of Binding Condition B to a construction containing pronouns embedded in conjoined noun phrases. The study included pronouns bound by a quantifier. Results support the argument that anaphoric relations are constrained by more than one module of grammar. (12 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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