Abstract
KRAMER, PAMELA E.; KOFF, ELISSA; and LURIA, ZELLA. The Development of Competence in an Exceptional Language Structure in Older Children and Young Adults. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1972, 43, 121-130. Ss between 8 and 20 years of age were tested for competence on an exception to a grammatical rule, the minimal distance principle. No age group tested was found with all Ss competent. Older groups had 2 competent Ss for every S who lacked the competence. Stages found by C. Chomsky (1969) for Ss below 8 were duplicated above age 8. 2 years after the original experiment, Ss who had not been found competent originally were retested. All age groups improved; no evidence for greater improvement of competency for the younger languageplastic-aged Ss was found.
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