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Peer reviewedCromer, Richard – Urban Review, 1975
In one experiment, children from 5 to 10 years of age played with puppets and responded to questions concerning the acquisition of one particular linguistic structure by children; in another series of experiments, both children and adults responded to questions regarding nonsense words in differentiating contexts--the focus of the discussion…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedHaviland, Susan E.; Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Child Language, 1972
This study of the acquisition of kinship terms in English is a test of the hypothesis that lexical items are learned in their order of complexity and of the validity of relational analysis in predicting the order of the acquisition of kinship terms. Earlier studies of kinship terms, Piaget's in particular, are first discussed, as well as the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis
