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Clark, Margaret M. – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1989
Suggests that experimental studies are valuable in analyzing children's language development. Criticizes the scarcity of experimental and naturalistic investigation into preschool language development. Calls for long-term study of continuity and discontinuity in children's school and home learning and between different school stages. Observes that…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Continuity, Experiments, Language Acquisition