Investigators determined that recent research, showing no sex differences as to the age at which children acquire language, actually may have employed techniques inferior to those used in earlier studies, which showed that girls were more advanced. (MP)

Children between the ages of 6 and 11 learn to understand and use the relative pronouns "qui" and "que." The closer the subordinate clause is to favorite word order, the easier it is for the child. (MLA)

Describes a study designed to explore the nature of early use of two forms of the perfect--the present perfect and the present perfect progressive--by children over three years old. Three factors were found to influence children's selective imitation and paraphrasing of the perfect: verb form, semantic sense of the perfect, and duration of the…

Describes a study that tried to answer the following: (1) Are the passives of all actional verbs equally easy to understand? (2) Are the passives of all experiential verbs in a child's vocabulary about equally hard to understand? (3) Does comprehension of passives differ from verb to verb in a category? (SED)

Describes a study which compares expressive language samples from normal children and language impaired children across a range of grammatical and lexical dimensions to determine if it is possible to characterize language impairment using such dimensions. Identifies two variables which were reasonably successful in discriminating the two groups.…

Explores the early use of "behind" and "in front of" with large reference objects among 33 children. The patterns for the use of these locatives suggest an acquisition process in which new conceptual resources lead to the re-analysis of object configurations and thus to new aspects of meaning. (SED)

An article first printed in "Elementary English" in September 1953 which reviews language acquisition and development in children. (DD)

This article presents a wholistic picture of the major factors in the language learning process. (RC)

Suggests that the evolutionary process in each child's acquisition of language is a mirror image of the historical evolution of the language. (TO)

A brief, personal account which gives the general recommendations resulting from the seminar. (SP)

Discusses the identity of language problems among elementary school students and suggests ways to help solve them. (GB)

Factors involved in learning to read are discussed. (CK)

Misconception of the role of the dictionary results in poor attitudes toward reference books and, consequently, inadequate skills in reading them. (Author/RY)

Indicates that the variables associated with age not only increase recall performance and chunking but they influence the manner in which semantic and syntactic information in sentences is processed as well. (Author/WY)