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Download full textScollon, Ronald – 1974
In speaking a child sometimes makes constructions in which a sequence of separate utterances expresses a semantic relation not expressed by either utterance. These "vertical constructions" are the main point of this study. Previous studies of construction in child language have largely dealt with sentences. In this study, sentences are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Acquisition
Biondi, Lawrence S. J. – 1975
This study investigates and determines how the processes involved in language acculturation and socialization become interrelated in the linguistic, cultural, and social development of white, Italian-American monolingual and bilingual children of working class parents in Boston's North End. This sociolinguistic study deals particularly with the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, Field Interviews
