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Peer reviewedBaldie, Brian J. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This study aimed to determine the average ages at which children imitate, produce and comprehend passive constructions. Previous findings that imitation precedes comprehension, which precedes production, are confirmed in this study for children aged 3-8. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research
Peer reviewedMaratsos, Michael P.; Kuczaj, Stanley A., II – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (under the title "What a Child Can Do Before He Will"), 1974
A study was undertaken to determine how much knowledge children have of grammatical systems before they evidence the systems in their spontaneous speech in a productive way. A child aged about two and a half years was examined over several months through elicited imitation causing him to repeat a model sentence immediately after the researcher.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Download full textLoban, Walter – 1970
The 13-year study reported in this monograph attempted to accumulate a mass of longitudinal data on every aspect of linguistic behavior in 211 students representing a cross-section of American urban children. Presented as the major objectives of the study, which followed the subjects from kindergarten through grade 12, are 11 hypotheses to be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Growth Patterns, High Achievement
