Example sentences of "study of [noun pl] ['s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) My study of individuals ' linguistic behaviour is based on the close analysis of interactions within conversation . |
| 2 | In addition , Piaget ( 1926 ) carried out an observational study of children 's spontaneous speech , and a study in which children had to listen to a spoken explanation and then relay it to another person . |
| 3 | As we shall see in Chapter 4 , its ideas are echoed in many studies of women 's preferred conversational style . |
| 4 | These are examples of the way even studies of women 's domestic roles tacitly subscribe to the myth of feminine passivity . |
| 5 | However , studies of children 's communicative abilities prior to the onset of spoken language have indicated that the origins of communication may be traced back to the earliest days after birth , and that full mastery of the morpho-syntactic devices for expressing complex meanings may not be fully understood until early adolescence . |
| 6 | On the other hand , studies of children 's spontaneous production have revealed that most of the causal sentences which children produce refer to intentions ( Hood , 1977 ; McCabe and Peterson , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | There is therefore not a large discrepancy between studies of children 's linguistic abilities in this area , and studies of their cognitive abilities which show that three-year-olds are able to distinguish between causes and effects . |
| 8 | Large regional studies of children 's smoking habits during the 1960 's and 1970's showed that more boys smoked than girls and that boys started earlier [ 3 ] . |