Facilitating Children's Syntax Acquisition.

Nelson, Keith E.

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ERIC Number: EJ162751

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Publication Date: 1977

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Facilitating Children's Syntax Acquisition

Nelson, Keith E.

Developmental Psychology, 13, 2, 101-107, Mar 77

Twelve 21/2-year-old children received adult verbal intervention selectively directed toward acquisition of either question forms or verb forms. Findings showed that children who received verb intervention acquired new verb structures while children who received question intervention acquired new forms of questions. (Author/JMB)

Descriptors: Adults, Infants, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Syntax, Verbal Communication, Verbal Development

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