CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE: WORD-PHRASE RELATIONSHIP.
Unsystematic observations indicated that small children who could reverse the order of certain two-unit utterances had difficulty reversing utterances that formed common English sequences. Findings of this study indicate that the following factors are sources of difficulty in reversing pairs: (i) inability to separate English sequences into word units, and (ii) semantic absurdity of reversed pairs.
D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012660:Semantics
CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; LANGUAGE