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Peer reviewedBloom, Lois; Capatides, Joanne Bitetti – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Discusses a longitudinal study of young children's acquisition of complex sentences for expressing their beliefs about causally related events, in the transition in language development from simple to complex syntax. While most of the children's statements expressed subjective meaning overall, the acquisition of syntactic connectives was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedBloom, Lois; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Reports a study of two- and three-year-olds' acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that took a second verb in their complements. Complement types, complementizer connectives, and the discourse contexts in which complementation occurred were specific to individual matrix verbs. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Acquisition
