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Download full textAmmon, Mary Sue; Slobin, Dan I. – 1978
Children aged 2;0 to 4;4, including native speakers of English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish, were asked to demonstrate causative statements by acting them out with toy animals and dolls. The major analysis focused on the total number of correct acting-out responses and the way this score related to several variables. Performance improved…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Italian
