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Gathercole, Virginia C. – 1979
Two children's spontaneous utterances containing the comparative structure are examined for their semantic content. Many comparatives are found to encode the notion "A has property X," and this use is often found in reference to the presence of X to an extreme, rather than a non-extreme, extent. The uses of the comparative are analyzed…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Error Analysis (Language)
Gilbert, John H. V.; Johnson, Carolyn E. – 1976
This paper reports the results of a preliminary study dealing with the ways in which children between ages 6 and 7 organize spoken language. In particular, aspects of the temporal and segmental structure of polysyllabic English words containing the syllable C/jul/, as in the word "pediculous," are dealt with. This study is based on the assumption…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
