The Relative Clause in Child Language [microform] : A Review. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3 / John Blake More
- Bib ID:
- 5366494
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- More, John Blake
- Description:
-
- [Washington, D.C.]] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 13 p.
- Summary:
-
Studies on the acquisition of relative clauses are reviewed. Two polarities among a variety of possible approaches are: Slobin's (1971) study that emphasizes acquisition process and learning strategies, and studies like Sheldon's (1974) that emphasize the linguistic structures involved. Early proposals that children experience more difficulty in processing discontinuous, as distinct from contiguous elements, have been contradicted by the parallel function hypothesis. More recent studies tend to emphasize an examination of the processing heuristics used by children, and they show that at times children have no adequate processing strategies. Most studies of relative clause acquisition report on experiments in which children were instructed to act out the content of sentences containing relative clauses by manipulating toy animals. By observing children's responses over the course of many experiments, investigators have been able to systematize children's responses into a number code of response types, which can be classified into a particular sentence type. All of the reviewed studies have in common that they suggest new avenues of approach to an understanding of children's acquisition of relative clauses. (SW)
- Notes:
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Dept. of Linguistics
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1978
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Seribu satu kesalahan berbahasa : bahan penyuluhan bahasa Indonesia / Zaenal Arifin, Farid Hadi
- Classroom-relevant research in the language arts / coordinated by Harold G. Shane, James Walden ; foreword by Donald R. Frost
- In praise of incidental learning [microform] : lessons from some empirical findings on language acquisition / Warwick B. Elley
- German child language survey : collected transcripts of recordings made in Heidelberg, Berlin, Hanover and Urach/Wurtt
- Obligatory Processing of Words in Two Languages by Bilinguals [microform] / Robert Guttentag and Others