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Vihman, Marilyn M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Sampled the speech of American, French, and Swedish mothers to their one-year olds, to analyze distribution of phonetic parameters of adult speech, as well as children's own early words. Found that variability is greater in child words than in adult speech, and mother-child dyads showed no evidence of specific maternal influence on phonetics of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies

Choe, Soonja – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of young English-, French-, and Korean-speaking children showed that, across the three languages, children go through three similar developmental stages before they acquire the adult system of answering negative questions. Several language-specific phenomena were observed. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries