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Peer reviewedGreen, Judith L. – Theory into Practice, 1979
The nature and development of communicative abilities in young children is introduced as the central theme of this issue of "Theory into Practice." (JD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBeckman, Mary E.; Edwards, Jan – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence from studies on adults' language processing and children's language acquisition that the lexicon is at the core of grammatical generalizations at several levels of representation. Proposes that phonological acquisition might provide the bootstrapping into grammatical generalization in general. Concludes that age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Development, Children
Woodward, Virginia A. – 1982
Evidence from the language use of young children is used to question accepted notions of language development and instruction in the three papers in this compilation. The first paper, "Young Children Challenge the Belief That Language Needs to be Taught Sequentially," challenges the notion of sequential development in which oral language…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedSnow, Catherine E. – Harvard Educational Review, 1983
Drawing upon recent research findings and upon a case study of a child learning to talk and to read, the author outlines the important similarities in the development of both language and literacy. The characteristics of parent-child interaction which support language acquisition--semantic contingency, scaffolding, accountability procedures, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedBarlow, Jessica A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
This article concludes a forum that considered theoretical and analytical frameworks applied to developing systems in phonological theory and treatment. It discusses the role of complexity in target selection of children with language impairments: error pattern interaction and complexity; complexity, treatment, and constraint demotion; and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
