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Download full textScholes, Robert J.; And Others – 1976
Human beings who have been forced to acquire language through non-auditory modalities characteristically display an impoverished syntactic system. I.M. Schlessinger (1970) has shown, for example, that users of sign language have difficulty in communicating syntactic relations such as "subject of main verb,""object of the verb," and "indirect…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Form Classes (Languages), Hearing Impairments, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedWijnen, Frank; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Polysyllabic words from 2 Dutch children from 1;6 to 2;11 were truncated so that they fitted a trochaic (strong-weak SW) pattern, particularly in early samples. Some observations with respect to the (non)realization of determiners suggest an influence of a SW-constraint on the realization of noun phrases. Findings support the hypothesis that words…
Descriptors: Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Dutch, Language Acquisition
