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Syntactic Categories in the Speech of Young Children.

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Valian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986

Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)

Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition

The Concepts of Topic and Subject in First Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese.

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Chien, Yu-Chin; Lust, Barbara – Child Development, 1985

Reveals that young children acquiring Mandarin Chinese differentiate subject from topic, even though Chinese is a "topic-prominent" language. Data are based on results of a standardized, elicited imitation test of 95 Chinese children in Taiwan. Subjects between 2 years, 6 months and 5 years of age responded to coordinate as well as…

Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition