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Peer reviewedDodson, Kelly; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Examined the role of animacy and pronouns as children ages 2 to 3 years acquired transitive construction. Participants learned two nonce verbs, one of which was modeled in several transitive sentence frames and the other in neutral sentence frames. Many children produced transitive sentences with the first verb, but only children near age 3…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, English
