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Peer reviewedPayne, John-Allen; Quigley, Stephen – Volta Review, 1987
A study of 45 hearing-impaired students (ages 10 to 19) investigated their understanding of English verb-particle combinations of varying syntactic and semantic difficulty. Results suggest an order of difficulty in learning. Idioms were found to be more difficult than literal meanings with little improvement over the age range of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adverbs, Age Differences, Comprehension
