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Grammatical Structures in the Speech of Children: A Transformational Analysis.
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O'Donnell, Roy C.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1967
The techniques of transformational grammar can be used effectively to identify and describe significant differences in the language competencies of children at several grade levels. The oral language responses of 150 elementary school children and 30 kindergartners (selected at random) to two silent, animated films of Aesop's "Fables" were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students