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Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Fifth graders were asked to learn 32 syntactically varied semantically unrelated sentences containing combinations of agentive, objective, and instrumental case relations. Results were discussed in terms of ways to store sentences. (ST)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Elementary School Students, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Download full textEhri, Linnea C. – 1971
This investigation was intended to study the effects of some linguistic variables on child and adult memories for sentences when recall was prompted by nouns embedded in the sentences. Its purpose was to examine for developmental differences in sentence processing systems expected by psycholinguistic theory and research. A group of 64 subjects,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Child Language, Deep Structure
