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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
Download full textStarosta, Stanley – 1970
In line with current thinking in transformational grammar, syntax as a system can and should be studied before a study is made of the use of that system. Chomsky's lexical redundancy rule is an area for further study, possibly to come closer to defining and achieving explanatory adequacy. If it is observed that English nouns come in two types,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Componential Analysis, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
