Chapter 5 The Pathology of Grammatical Operations

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Children may learn to speak fluently and grammatically in their early years and this continues during the preschool period. However, children experience considerable difficulty in making the grammatical structure of speech an object of awareness. This problem arises from the fact that, in the preschool stage, children's attention is chiefly concentrated on the objects named by spoken words. But, when children start formal schooling, they are required to study grammar and the word itself as a part of a system of language. Instruction in reading and writing leaves a deep imprint on children. Once they have learned to concentrate on letters and syllables, they often go to the other extreme; they begin to separate phrases into their phonetic elements. Only a lengthy process of scholastic development leads to an adequate balance between the formal-phonetic set and the semantic set.

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