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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"grammatical development"”.
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One Of A Kind Grammar: The Role Of Sentence Diversity In Children's Grammatical Development
… measure. At 36 months of age, the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment was administered to measure children’s ability to accurately mark tense and agreement. Results: No relationship was found between parent sentence diversity and children’s sentence diversity. However, children’s 30-month …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… aimed to describe the early lexical and grammar development of Xitsonga-speaking children, aged 16 to 32 months. The study objectives were to describe 1) the outcomes of the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI) for Xitsonga speakers 2) the relationship …
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A longitudinal study of lexical development in young children with autism spectrum disorders
… deficits in communication and delays in language development, but there have been few studies of their vocabulary. This study compared longitudinal parent report data from the MCDI collected for 49 children with ASD over three years with data from the MCDI norms. It focused on three aspects of …
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Focus on form from the inside : the significance of grammatical sensitivity for L2 learning in communicative ESL classrooms
… (Carroll, 1962) established the significance of grammatical sensitivity when learners are in structure-based instructional settings. This study addressed the question of whether grammatical sensitivity is associated with L2 learning outcomes when instruction is communicative in nature. The …
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The development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young second language learners within a conversational context
This is a longitudinal study of the development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young children using English as a second language in a classroom context. The theoretical standpoint adopted is that first and second language development in 'natural' contexts is facilitated by the same …
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Sealbhú na Gaeilge ag naíonáin: early language acquisition of Irish
… developing children, let alone assessment or developmental pathways for speech and language therapists to work with. Furthermore, the study of Irish can make a valuable contribution to cross-linguistic research as it has structures which are very different to English such as a VSO word order, …
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Developmental expectations for child-like sentences
… The purpose of this project was to establish developmental sentence diversity expectations for children at 30 months of age. Two research questions were posed: (1) Is there a difference in the diversity of sentence subject types (i.e., first person singular, third person singular) at 30 months …
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Grammatical productivity in Mandarin resultative verb compounds
… Verb Compounds (RVCs) as a window into the development of grammatical productivity. The project combined exploration of observational data, language elicitation/priming tasks with real words, and novel word learning/testing tasks, and led to a comprehensive view of how different levels of …
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Coming to agreement: representation and processing of English subject-verb agreement in acquisition
… provide a useful window on children’s grammatical development. In this project, we use subject-verb agreement as a tool for investigating how young children learn and process formal linguistic relationships, considering both classic questions about the role of semantic and syntactic- …