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Peer reviewedForbes, James N.; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – Cognitive Development, 1993
Study of 3 and 7 year olds and adults examined role that changes in continuity, direction, instrument, and causative agent play in children's and adults' initial assumptions about meaning of novel motion verbs and events. Subjects made similar initial assumptions, but children generalized more conservatively than adults to all change types in…
Descriptors: Adults, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Semantics
Peer reviewedGrela, Bernard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2003
The language transcripts of seven children with Down syndrome (DS) and seven typically developing children with comparable mean length of utterance levels were compared for verb argument structure. Findings suggest that syntactic difficulties may delay children with DS in overcoming the optional subject phenomena and the lesser number of anomalous…
Descriptors: Child Development, Down Syndrome, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedOlguin, Raquel; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 1993
A study of two year olds investigated the nature and development of children's early productivity with verb-argument structure and verb morphology. Results indicated that the children showed no signs of productive verb morphology, but they did use newly learned verbs in some creative ways involving nounlike uses and the appending of locatives.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
