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Rispoli, Matthew – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article investigates the relationship between third person singular present tense agreement morphemes, copula "is" and verb-"s", at 2;00 and 2;03. Language samples from 60 children at 2;00 were analyzed for the productivity of copula "is" as measured by the number of different morphemes preceding "is"…
Descriptors: Grammar, Verbs, Young Children, Vocabulary
Rispoli, Matthew; Bloom, Lois – 1987
A study tested the hypothesis that if, for the 2-year-old, the transitive/intransitive distinction functions to signal differences in the conceptualization of actions, the child's sentence production should show a relationship between sentence frame and (1) locus of change animacy and (2) the child's expectations concerning an action's outcome.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Grammar