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Peer reviewedHaviland, Susan E.; Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Child Language, 1972
This study of the acquisition of kinship terms in English is a test of the hypothesis that lexical items are learned in their order of complexity and of the validity of relational analysis in predicting the order of the acquisition of kinship terms. Earlier studies of kinship terms, Piaget's in particular, are first discussed, as well as the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis
