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ERIC Number: EJ209024
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1979-Feb
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The Role of Animate and Inanimate Nouns in Determining Sentence Voice.
Dewart, M. Hazel
British Journal of Psychology, v70 pt1 p135-41 Feb 1979
Children aged six and eight were required to recall transitive sentences, some with an animate actor and inanimate acted-upon element, and some with these reversed. It appeared that children prefer to put the animate noun first and this affects their choice of active or passive sentence voice. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary School Students, Language Patterns, Language Research, Nouns, Recall (Psychology), Response Style (Tests), Semantics, Sentence Structure
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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