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Fitzgerald, Colleen E.; Rispoli, Matthew; Hadley, Pamela A. – First Language, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine if children acquire grammatical case as a unified system or in a piecemeal fashion. In English language acquisition, many children make developmental errors in marking case on subject position pronouns (e.g., "Me" do it, "Him" like it). It is unknown whether children who produce…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Grammar, Morphemes
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Rispoli, Matthew; Hadley, Pamela A.; Holt, Janet K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: This study tests empirical predictions of a maturational model for the growth of tense in children younger than 36 months using a type-based productivity measure. Method: Caregiver-child language samples were collected from 20 typically developing children every 3 months from 21 to 33 months of age. Growth in the productivity of tense…
Descriptors: Productivity, Investigations, Morphemes, Child Language