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Peer reviewedCollier, Robert G. – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Examines whether language play could affect primary school children's awareness of their syntax. (MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Competence
Peer reviewedValian, Virginia; Caplan, Janet Stojak – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Explores two questions: What is the nature of older children's syntactic knowledge, and how is that knowledge used in an everyday speech situation? Subjects were 96 children at each of three grade levels: 6, 8, and 10. (MP)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedKuczaj, Stan A., II; Brannick, Nancy – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
Three studies assessed children's knowledge of the wh question modal auxiliary placement rule by asking the children to imitate (and in Study 3 judge) grammatical and ungrammatical model wh questions. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationBrause, Rita S. – 1977
The hypothesized ability of adult native speakers to understand linguistic ambiguity was tested. An approach developed to determine linguistic competence tested the ability of 90 participants in individual interviews to interpret sentences having the potential for multiple interpretations. The hypothesis was not supported by the data. A hierarchy…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Age Differences, Ambiguity
