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Peer reviewedRowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V.M.; Theaksto, Anna L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Many current generativist theorists suggest that young children possess the grammatical principles of inversion required for question formation but make errors because they find it difficult to learn language-specific rules about how inversion applies. The present study analyzed longitudinal spontaneous sampled data from twelve 2-3-year-old…
Descriptors: Young Children, Constructivism (Learning), Error Analysis (Language), Language Research
Peer reviewedRubino, 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
