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Chen, Margaret – 1979
This paper investigates the development of negative Wh-questions in a four year old subject acquiring English as her L1. Spontaneous and elicited speech samples were collected over a period of 6 months. During the course of the study, the subject began to invert subject and auxiliary, and by the end of the study she was inverting correctly in 38%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Muller, Charles – 1978
A study is described of heuristic devices useful in learning both native and second languages. The study concerns particularly the means used by very young students (second and third graders) in vocabulary acquisition and in the establishment of semantic relationships. It was of concern to verify if (1) the children would use their knowledge of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
