The Development of Locative Expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.

Johnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I.

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Publication Date: 1979-Oct

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The Development of Locative Expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish.

Johnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I.

Journal of Child Language, v6 n3 p529-45 Oct 1979

The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, English, Grammar, Italian, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals, Psycholinguistics, Serbocroatian, Turkish

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