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Rispoli, Matthew – 1988
A study investigated Japanese children's acquisition of the syntactical subcategorization of action verbs. Aspects of caregiver language that provide children with information about the characteristics of an action verb are detailed, and the utterances of four Japanese toddlers are analyzed for their usage characteristics. Caregiver sentences are…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Language, Classification, Interpersonal Communication
Rispoli, Matthew; Bloom, Lois – 1987
A study tested the hypothesis that if, for the 2-year-old, the transitive/intransitive distinction functions to signal differences in the conceptualization of actions, the child's sentence production should show a relationship between sentence frame and (1) locus of change animacy and (2) the child's expectations concerning an action's outcome.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Grammar
