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Download full textLempert, Henrietta – 1981
Preschoolers' ability to understand grammatical relations in passives and to generalize was studied using animate referents. Three- to five-year-old children were taught to produce passive sentence descriptions of events in which animacy of the actor and acted-on object were varied. After pretesting to determine passive sentence comprehension, the…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
