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| Hare, Victoria Chou | 2 |
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Hare, Victoria Chou – 1976
This study addressed four questions raised in syntactic acquisition studies conducted by Carol Chomsky and others. Specifically, questions concerned the nature of syntactic structures in children's language repertoires, the uniformity and rate of acquisition of particular structures, the generalizability of the minimal-distance principle, and the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedHare, Victoria Chou; Otto, Wayne – Journal of Educational Research, 1978
By the fifth grade no differences were found between the order of adjectives in a sentence preferred by children and by adults. (ED/JD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Elementary School Students, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
