It seems possible that a serious gap exists between current linguistic and psycholinguistic theory and classroom practice. (Authors)

The (Roger A.) McCaig article appeared in Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), pp. 612-18: How Not To Analyze the Syntax of Children"; it was critical of a study in which the author was a co-investigator ( Syntax of Kindergarten and Elementary School Children: A Transformational Analysis," 1967). (RD)

A syntactic density instrument was devised to determine how children use specific syntactic structures in their oral and written language. (JH)

Investigates the effects of two kindergarten programs, social class, and sex upon children's oral syntactic facility. (Author)

Presents results of a study of the phonological, morphological, and syntactical oral language patterns of disadvantaged children of New Orleans. Many of the findings are relevant to beginning reading instruction. (TO)

Focus of the study was to explore the developmental trend of syntactic maturity and vocabulary diversity in the spoken utterances of kindergarten, first, second, and third grade children as they responded to adults in a structured situation. Also looked for possible language differences which might exist between the sexes. (RB)

Report of research findings on productive language differences in beginning fifth grade Black children living in Philadelphia, as evidenced by their use of nonstandard syntactic forms in both speech and writing. (RB)