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Messenger, Katherine; Branigan, Holly P.; McLean, Janet F. – Journal of Child Language, 2012
We report a syntactic priming experiment that examined whether children's acquisition of the passive is a staged process, with acquisition of constituent structure preceding acquisition of thematic role mappings. Six-year-olds and nine-year-olds described transitive actions after hearing active and passive prime descriptions involving the same or…
Descriptors: Evidence, Syntax, Priming, Verbs

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