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Ingham, Richard – Language Acquisition, 1998
Reports a case study of a British 2-year old that shows a stage in syntactic development without a subject agreement protection but with a tense phrase. A sharp contrast in use of verb forms suggests that the child had left the Optional Infinitive stage and entered a transitional stage, where the major development is that the status of the bare…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English, Grammar
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Barlow, Jessica A.; Dinnsen, Daniel A. – Language Acquisition, 1998
Presents a longitudinal case study of a child with a phonological disorder. Demonstrates an asymmetrical pattern of consonant cluster development with two different reduction strategies. Argues that the child first represents all clusters as single underlying units, later representing only certain clusters as single units. Formulated within…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Consonants, Language Acquisition