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Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Study of a one-year-old's earliest use of prepositions found that spatial oppositions ("up-down") were learned first, and used in non-prepositional senses prior to prepositional usage. "With,""by,""to,""for,""at," and "of" were learned later and used to express case relationships and more often misused and omitted than the earlier-learned…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
