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Peer reviewedBrooks, Patricia J.; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated toddlers' acquisition and use of nonsense verbs in passive and active voice. Children used various strategies to answer questions designed to elicit voice changes but did not usually change verb construction. When passive and active constructions were primed, older children were able to use an active-introduced verb in passive…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Oral Language
Peer reviewedLewis, Lawrence B.; Antone, Carol; Johnson, Jacqueline S. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated whether the content of infant speech productions is better characterized as preserving stressed and final syllables or as preserving a trochaic pattern; used a detailed longitudinal description of one child's syllable omission. Found that the trochaic template hypothesis was not supported by these early productions. (Author/JPB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Usage
