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Peer reviewedBloom, Lois; Capatides, Joanne Bitetti – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Discusses a longitudinal study of young children's acquisition of complex sentences for expressing their beliefs about causally related events, in the transition in language development from simple to complex syntax. While most of the children's statements expressed subjective meaning overall, the acquisition of syntactic connectives was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies
