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| Fay, David | 1 |
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Peer reviewedFay, David – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Kuczaj challenged the hypotheses that young children construct utterances by applying transformation rules to an abstract underlying structure. It is contended that Kuczaj's alternative hypotheses do not account for Hurford's data, and some of Kuczaj's new evidence actually supports the Transformational Hypothesis. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research
