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Language Maturation among School Children: A Sociolinguistic Analysis.
Horvath, Barbara May – 1976
The test performance of 120 Anglo, black, and Chicano third- and fifth-grade children is used to demonstrate the similarities between the processes of diachronic and ontogenetic language change. The instrument used measured the range of knowledge of several grammatical structures. Analysis and interpretation of results suggested the gradual…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)