Tag: acquisition

  • Correcting your child’s grammar

    Back in 1971, a guy named M. D. S. Braine published [“On two types of models of the internalization of grammars” in D. J. Slobin (ed) The ontogenesis of grammar, pp. 153-186, Academic Press] a rather interesting observation: … I have occasionally made an extensive effort to change the syntax of my two children through […]