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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 reviewedRidgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language
Peer reviewedBecker, Judith A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Explores the underlying knowledge that children have about the relationship between the structure of requests and the relative status of speakers and listeners. Shows that the three age groups (preschoolers, 5-year-olds, and 10-year-olds) could systematically differentiate the requests by means of syntactic directness or semantics. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
