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Peer reviewedLempert, Henrietta – Child Development, 1989
Investigates whether patient animacy affected the acquisition of the passive construction of syntax of 32 children aged two-five years. Results indicate that children who were taught the passive with animate patients produced more passives in the teaching phase than did comparable children who received inanimate patients. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Preschool Children
