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Download full textMaratsos, Michael P.; Kuczaj, Stan A., II – 1976
From the standpoint of transformational grammar, this experimental work evaluates the extent to which children choose or fail to generalize their rules for the placement of the negative particles "not" and "n't." The subjects were eight three- and four-year-olds of middle-class background who had been producing sentences with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Generalization, Language Acquisition
