Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ380581
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Publication Date: 1988
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The Issue of Negative Evidence: Adult Responses to Children's Language Errors.
Bohannon III, John Neil; Stanowicz, Laura
Developmental Psychology, v24 n5 p683-89 Sep 1988
When 16 parents' and 13 nonparents' conversations with children were examined for evidence of adults' differential responses to children's syntactic, phonological, and semantic errors, results indicated that adults tended to respond differentially to children's language mistakes, with parents showing greater sensitivity than non-parents. (RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition, Parent Influence, Parent Role, Phonology, Semantics, Syntax
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Language: English
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