Case-like Categories in Children: The Actor and Some Related Categories.

Braine, Martin D. S.; Wells, Robin S.

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ERIC Number: EJ184162

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Publication Date: 1978

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Case-like Categories in Children: The Actor and Some Related Categories

Braine, Martin D. S.; Wells, Robin S.

Cognitive Psychology, 10, 1, 100-22, Jan 78

Five experiments were performed in which nursery school children were taught to identify persons, animals, or objects in pictures that took the nominative, objective, or locative case in sentences about the pictures. Inferences are made about categories in children's thinking including animate, and actor and agent. (CTM)

Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Classification, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Preschool Education, Recognition, Sentence Structure, Stimulus Generalization

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