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Peer reviewedKemp, Nenagh; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Children's understanding of the grammatical categories of "determiner" and "adjective" was examined using 2 different methodologies. In Experiment 1, children heard novel nouns combined with either a or the. Few 2-year-olds, but nearly all 3- and 4-year-olds, subsequently produced the novel nouns with a different determiner from the modeled…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Patterns
