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Tanouye, Ellen K. – 1979
A study of data on Japanese children shows that the development of verbs occurs at the same time as the development of nouns and may even precede it. The subjects for the study were two children who were learning Japanese as their first language. Four speech samples, taken between the ages of 22 and 28 months, were audiotaped and supplemented by…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Japanese, Language Acquisition
Lord, Carol – 1979
A study of overregularized use of verbs by two children over a period when they were 2 1/2 to 5 years of age shows overregularizations in two directions: non-causative verbs were used as causatives; and causative verbs were used non-causatively. According to terminology from logic, predicates were classified according to the number of noun-phrase…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
