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Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Developmental Science, 2024
There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as "She play tennis" and "Mummy eating" is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context-blind fashion. So how do children stop making such…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Preschool Children, Grammar
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Hsin, Lisa B.; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Barriere, Isabelle; Nazzi, Thierry; Legendre, Geraldine – Journal of Child Language, 2021
A surprising comprehension-production asymmetry in subject-verb (SV) agreement acquisition has been suggested in the literature, and recent research indicates that task-specific as well as language-specific features may contribute to this apparent asymmetry across languages. The present study investigates when during development children acquiring…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Language Variation
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Zukowski, Andrea – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Relative clauses have been implicated alternately as a strength and a weakness in the language of people with Williams Syndrome (WS). To clarify the facts, an elicited production test was administered to 10 people with WS (age 10-16 years), 10 typically developing children (age 4-7 years), and 12 typically developing adults. Nearly every WS…
Descriptors: Interference (Language), Language Acquisition, Sentence Structure, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Rispoli, Matthew; Hadley, Pamela – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2001
This study explored the relationship between sentence disruptions and the length and complexity of sentences spoken by 26 typical children developing grammar. For most children, disrupted sentences tended to be longer and more complex than fluent sentences and the magnitude of the differences in length and complexity was positively correlated with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Expressive Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Kedar, Yarden; Casasola, Marianella; Lust, Barbara – Child Development, 2006
Infants of 18 and 24 months acquiring English were tested in a preferential looking task on their ability to detect ungrammaticalities caused by manipulating a single function word in sentences. Infants heard grammatical sentences in which the determiner "the" preceded a target noun, as well as three ungrammatical conditions in which "the" was…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Infants, Grammar, Sentence Structure
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Scott, Cheryl M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
The article examines the child's ability to produce complex sentences with sections on a structural framework for complex language (clausal and nonclausal complexity), a developmental perspective (coordination of clauses, subordination of nominal, adverbial, and relative clauses), and applied considerations (evaluating and teaching complex…
Descriptors: Child Development, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language
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Hornby, Peter A.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children