Children's Production and Comprehension of Questions.

Tyack, Dorothy; Ingram, David

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Publication Date: 1977

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Children's Production and Comprehension of Questions

Tyack, Dorothy; Ingram, David

Journal of Child Language, 4, 2, 211-224, Jun 77

Two studies were conducted to discover possible patterns in question acquisition. For the production study, questions were collected from 22 children aged two to eleven. In the comprehension study, 100 children, aged three to five, were tested. The test controlled syntax and vocabulary and varied specific "wh-" question-words. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Performance, Psycholinguistics, Sentences, Verbal Development

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