Transformations, Basic Operations and Language Acquisition.

Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others

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Publication Date: 1978

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Transformations, Basic Operations and Language Acquisition

Mayer, Judith Winzemer; And Others

Cognition, 6, 1, 1-13, Mar 78

The basic-operations hypothesis predicts that for any transformation which is composed of more than one basic operation, there exists a class of errors in children's speech correctly analyzed as failure to apply one (or more) of the operations specified in the adult formulation of the rule. (Author/CTM)

Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Sentence Structure, Structural Grammar, Transformational Generative Grammar

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