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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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Fitzgerald, Colleen E.; Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: Evidence for tense marking in child-directed speech varies both across languages (Guasti, 2002; Legate & Yang, 2007) and across speakers of a single language (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald, & Bahnsen, 2011). The purpose of this study was to understand how parent interaction styles and register use overlap with the tense-marking…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Morphemes, Grammar