Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Sentence comprehension by children between 2 and 5 years of age was examined in the first of 2 studies. 3-year-olds consistently applied extra-syntactic strategies resulting in many errors of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Educational deficits and reading problems in disadvantaged children may be much more a function of semantic (under) development than has been ...