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Rubino, Rejane B.; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study of subject-verb agreement in 3-year-old speakers of Brazilian Portuguese found an overall low error rate, but with important contrasts in both frequency of production of different verb inflections and rate of agreement errors associated with them, suggesting subject-verb agreement is acquired piecemeal and the learning of particular verb…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Scliar-Cabral, Leonor; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the relative ability of literate (n=24), semi-literate (n=45), and non-literate (n=21) adults to erase the initial consonant or vowel from non-words and pronounce the remaining phonemes. It was hypothesized that difficulty in removing the initial consonant from the vowel with which it coarticulates is due not only to…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Error Patterns