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Peer reviewedSzagun, Gisela – Child Development, 1978
Samples of spontaneous speech were collected from 20 English and 20 German preschool children and their mothers. The children's frequency of use of various tenses was compared at different age levels within each language, across languages, and with their mothers' frequency of tense usage in speech to the children. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
