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Agent-Patient Word-Order Preference in the Acquisition of Tagalog

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Segalowitz, Norman S.; Galang, Rosita G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978

In a study, Tagalog-speaking children, 3-, 5-, and 7-year olds, demonstrated better mastery of patient-focus (passive) than agent-focus (active) sentence structure. These results were attributed to the children's strategy of interpreting the first noun of a sentence to be the agent of the action. (SW)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Natural Information Processing Rules: Formal Theory and Applications to Ethnography. Monographs of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 3.

Geoghegan, William H. – 1973

This monograph represents the results of an attempt to construct at least one portion of a theoretical framework for describing and analyzing the performance routines used by the native actor to realize his competence to make culturally appropriate decisions. In general the concern is to describe in theoretical terms the structure and operation of…

Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes