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Peer reviewedGardner, Howard; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1975
To assess children's capacities to effect appropriate "metaphoric links" and to discriminate among metaphors of varying appropriateness, a task probing verbal metaphoric skill was administered to subjects ranging in age from 4 to 19 years. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedTyack, Dorothy; Ingram, David – Journal of Child Language, 1977
Two studies were conducted to discover possible patterns in question acquisition. For the production study, questions were collected from 22 children aged two to eleven. In the comprehension study, 100 children, aged three to five, were tested. The test controlled syntax and vocabulary and varied specific "wh-" question-words. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLindholm, Kathryn J.; Padilla, A. M. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article concludes that language mixes do not constitute a major interference in the acquisition of bilingualism since children appear to be able to differentiate their two linguistic systems from an early age. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
