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Developmental Psychology

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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika	1
Valian, Virginia	1

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Syntactic Categories in the Speech of Young Children.

Peer reviewed

Valian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986

Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)

Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition

Function and Structure in Maternal Speech: Their Relation to the Child's Development of Syntax.

Peer reviewed

Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1986

Assesses the interrelations among the functional properties of maternal speech, the structural properties of maternal speech, and child language growth for a period of six months for 22 two-year-old children and their mothers. (HOD)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Influences, Interpersonal Communication