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Contextual priority: verbal shift at seven?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

John R. Muma and
Carol L. Zwycewicz-Emory
John R. Muma
Affiliation:
Texas Technological University
Carol L. Zwycewicz-Emory
Affiliation:
Winooski, Vermont
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Abstract

Developmental changes in verbal responses to systematic variations in linguistic contexts contrast with the data reported in the syntagmatic-paradigmatic shift studies. The present study indicates a protracted developmental shift extending from five years of age beyond nine years of age. Apparently the first priority is to create a linguistic context when none is given; once a linguistic context is realized, semantic-syntactic equivalences have priority, followed by differentiation and then integration.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1979, pp. 301 - 311
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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