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Peer reviewedGropen, Jess; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Two experiments were performed on the ability of children and adults to understand and produce locative verbs. Results confirm that children tend to make syntactic errors with sentences containing "fill" and "empty," encoding the content argument as direct object. (33 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
Direct linkThordardottir, Elin T. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Although a number of studies have been conducted on normal acquisition in French, systematic methods for analysis of French and normative group data have been lacking. Aims: To develop a systematic method for the analysis of language samples in Quebec French, and to provide preliminary normative data on early lexical and syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Monolingualism, Error Patterns
