Children's use of four semantic cases in tow conditions.
The production of agent + action + object + locative relations by 3;6- and 5;6-yr-old normal children and language-disordered children was investigated These utterances were produced after children observed object manipulation or while copying object manipulation. The results indicated a developmental trend in the use of case relations. The manipulation task enhanced the use of case relations by the language-disordered group, whereas the observation task was more effective (or equally effective) for the normal groups.
D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012660:Semantics; D014705:Verbal Behavior