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Peer reviewedAmmon, Mary Sue; Slobin, Dan I. – Cognition, 1979
The comprehension of sentences expressing instigative causation was investigated in children aged two to four speaking English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Cross-linguistic differences in development revealed the roles of morphological and syntactic devices in processing these constructions. The word order systems of English and Italian…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies, English, Error Analysis (Language)
