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Direct linkEllis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2008
McCormack and Hoerl's state of the art review of the development of temporal concepts from the end of infancy to the end of the fifth year shows that young children's conception of time is quite different from that of adults. Adults and 5-year-old children can construe an event from a range of temporal perspectives and can describe it from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Verbs, Child Language
