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Peer reviewedSudhalter, Vicki; Braine, Martin D. S. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study that tried to answer the following: (1) Are the passives of all actional verbs equally easy to understand? (2) Are the passives of all experiential verbs in a child's vocabulary about equally hard to understand? (3) Does comprehension of passives differ from verb to verb in a category? (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewedBraine, Martin D. S.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1990
A study was undertaken to test the theory that canonical sentence schemas can sometimes assign argument structure to verbs. The theory has the advantage of explaining errors without postulating the acquisition of erroneous lexical entries that have to be learned, and it can be extended to other kinds of errors in the choice and placement of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing
