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Percept Mot Skills
; 68(3 Pt 1): 963-7, 1989 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2748313
RESUMO
Language utterances were recorded in three groups of 1- to 3-yr.-old day care children in Valdivia, Chile. An analysis of the preclausal patterns of language development according to the model outlined by Hubbell (1988) indicated that 4 of 12 major utterances--experiencer-state, action-object, agent-action, and negation-X--accounted for 68% of the total number of utterances recorded. The results suggest that preclausal patterns in language development of Spanish-speaking children are similar to and yet different in some respects from those of children who acquire English as their first language.