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Form and Function in Early Clause-Combining
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Lustigman, Lyle; Berman, Ruth A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The study characterizes developmental trends in early Hebrew clause-combining (CC) by analyzing the interplay between linguistic form and communicative function in different interactional settings. Analysis applied to all utterances produced by three children aged 2;0-3;0 who combined two or more clauses, either self-initiated or on the basis of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
Language-specific and Language-general in Developing Syntax.
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Dromi, Esther; Berman, Ruth A. – Journal of Child Language, 1986
The distribution of a small number of syntactic structures in the speech output of 102 Israeli preschoolers was examined. Findings are reported on the proportion of grammatically analyzable clauses, the patterning of word order in Hebrew child language, and the emergence of syntactic connectedness through coordination and subordination of clauses.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Connected Discourse, Developmental Stages