Based on a portion of author's Ph.D. dissertation, Communicative Development and Children's Answers to Questions," University of Wisconsin, 1970. (Author/RD)

Applications of research in psycholinguistics, particularly Noam Chomsky's research, have suggested some drastic innovations in the practices of both the classroom teacher and the child development researcher. For example, more emphasis is needed upon asking what a speaker knows about the grammar of the language with less concern about how…

Questions the value of teaching grammar to children on theoretical and practical grounds, and proposes an emphasis on teaching usage in varied communication situations. (RN)

This study was designed to explore the influences of visual context upon sentence comprehension in young children. Three-, four-, five-, and six-year-old children were presented with various linguistic tasks under varied visual context constraints. Four context conditions--no visual context, a helpful pictured context, a helpful visual context…