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De Lisser, Tamirand Nnena; Durrleman, Stephanie; Rizzi, Luigi; Shlonsky, Ur – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article provides the first systematic analysis of early subject omission in a creole language. Basing our analysis on a longitudinal corpus of natural production of Jamaican Creole (JC), we observe that early subject drop is robustly attested for several months. Early subject omission is basically confined to the clause initial position,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creoles, Language Acquisition, Sentences
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Liebeskind, Kara G.; Piotrowski, Jessica T.; Lapierre, Matthew A.; Linebarger, Deborah L. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
Children who start school with strong language skills initiate a trajectory of academic success, while children with weaker skills are likely to struggle. Research has demonstrated that media and parent-child interactions, both characteristics of the home literacy environment, influence children's language skills. Using a national sample of…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship, Academic Achievement
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Fletcher, Paul; Chan, Cathy W.-Y.; Wong, Peony T.-T.; Stokes, Stephanie; Tardif, Twila; Leung, Shirley C.-S. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Data from the Cantonese Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI) is used to review the phonological preferences of younger (16-22 months) and older (23-30 month) groups of children in the lexical items they are reported to be able to say. Analogous results to those found for English emerge from the Cantonese data: the younger group display…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Measures (Individuals), Vocabulary Development
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Hewlett, Nigel; Waters, Daphne – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
The prevailing view of phonological development is that changes in pronunciation are driven by phonological changes. This view (it is argued here) derives from the particular form of the data that has most often been used in studies of phonological development, namely broad phonetic transcriptions. Transcribing an earlier pronunciation with one…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Phonetic Transcription, Verbal Development
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Samuelsson, Christina; Nettelbladt, Ulrika – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2004
Background: Symptoms of prosodic problems have been found in Swedish children with language impairment at word and phrase level and possibly also at discourse level. Aims: The aim was twofold. First, to characterize a group of children with prosodic problems compared with children with normal language development. Second, to investigate the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Grammar, Phonetics, Suprasegmentals
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Ives, William; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1981
Three media used in a longitudinal, cross-sectional investigation to determine the rate of artistic development in young children were clay modeling, drawing, and storytelling. The most significant result of the study reveals that artistic competence does not proceed upward across all media as the child matures. (JN)
Descriptors: Art Expression, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education