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Snedeker, Jesse; Geren, Joy; Shafto, Carissa L. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants, these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive maturation and development. To disentangle these factors, we compared the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Nouns, Linguistics, Infants
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Huttenlocher, Janellen; Vasilyeva, Marina; Cymerman, Elina; Levine, Susan – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
Existing work on the acquisition of syntax has been concerned mainly with the early stages of syntactic development. In the present study we examine later syntactic development in children. Also, existing work has focused on commonalities in the emergence of syntax. Here we explore individual differences among children and their relation to…
Descriptors: Sentences, Nouns, Syntax, Linguistic Input