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Direct linkCharest, Monique; Johnston, Judith R. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
We examined the effects of object attributes on children's descriptive patterns in a referential communication task. Thirty preschoolers described object pairs that were selected by the experimenter. The targets were defined by shared size or colour, and differed on the non-target dimension in half of the trials. The children also completed a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Task Analysis, Color
McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
This paper examines the role of age, working memory span and phonological ability in the mastery of ten different grammatical constructions. Six- through eleven-year-old children (n = 68) and adults (n = 19) performed a grammaticality judgment task as well as tests of working memory capacity and receptive phonological ability. Children showed…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Memory, Word Order
