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Download full textBaron, Naomi S. – 1990
This 10-chapter monograph explores the range of influences parents have on their children's linguistic development and in the process attempts to understand why parents adopt the language styles they do in addressing children. The discussion focuses on the following three themes that are interwoven throughout the book: (1) the social nature of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Miller, Jon F.; Paul, Rhea – 1995
A variety of informal language development assessment tools is presented for use with children with developmental disabilities. This book is written as a manual for clinicians and researchers for evaluating children who cannot meet the cognitive, perceptual, or motor requirements of standardized tests and to help evaluate aspects of language not…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Rogers, Sinclair, Ed. – 1976
The five essays in this collection examine the ways in which language functions in the lives of children, particularly in contexts outside the classroom. The first essay attempts to relate the actual language of children and adolescents to the rather different language characteristic of teachers and schools. The second essay examines the language…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Language, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Wardhaugh, Ronald – 1976
This book is intended for use in conjunction with an introductory text on linguistics and language study, for beginning students of linguistics, or as a source of information for more advanced students who wish to become familiar with many of the issues that have concerned linguists in recent years. The variety of issues covered in this volume are…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Diachronic Linguistics, Higher Education
Minami, Masahiko – 2002
This book examines how culturally specific aspects of Japanese preschool children's narrative discourse skills develop and eventually lead to literacy. It discusses how language shapes and is shaped by culture-specific experiences, analyzing how young Japanese children develop narrative structure and how Japanese parents guide their children in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
Fantini, Alvino E. – 1985
An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and English, by a boy from birth, with data drawn from direct observation and occasional tape recordings of speech. An introductory chapter outlines the objectives and method…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Children
