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Peer reviewedGropen, Jess; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Two experiments were performed on the ability of children and adults to understand and produce locative verbs. Results confirm that children tend to make syntactic errors with sentences containing "fill" and "empty," encoding the content argument as direct object. (33 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
