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Claudio-Rafael Vasquez-Martinez; Francisco Flores-Cuevas; Felipe-Anastacio Gonzalez-Gonzalez; Luz-Maria Zuniga-Medina; Graciela-Esperanza Giron-Villacis; Irma-Carolina Gonzalez-Sanchez; Joaquin Torres-Mata – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2024
Language is the basis of human communication and is the most important key to complete mental development and thinking. Therefore, children must learn to communicate using appropriate language. For this to happen, the development of language in the child must be understood as a biological process, complete with internal laws and with marked stages…
Descriptors: Infants, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Phonology
Ruthe Foushee; Dan Byrne; Marisa Casillas; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Grantee Submission, 2022
Linguistic alignment--the contingent reuse of our interlocutors' language at all levels of linguistic structure--pervades human dialogue. Here, we design unique measures to capture the degree of linguistic alignment between interlocutors' linguistic representations at three levels of structure: lexical, syntactic, and semantic. We track these…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Vocabulary Skills, Models
Van Kleeck, Anne; Hopper, Robert – 1980
The purpose of this analytical essay is to lay out some conceptual boundaries and distinctions about how children develop and use metacommunication (messages whose primary function is to make reference to or transform themselves or other messages). Two types of metacommunication are discussed: metalinguistic messages, in which there is a temporary…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Language Processing
Salem, Philip – 1980
A study was conducted to test an hypothesis relating semantic structures to cognitive development, specifically that the mean number of associative complexes used by a group of children will be significantly greater than the mean number of associative complexes used by a group of adolescents. The word game "Password" provided a simulation of a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Shore, Cecilia – 1981
Previous research has shown a similar starting time for early combinations of words and play actions in children and has suggested that similar cognitive processes underlie the transition to combining activities in language, symbolic play, and manipulative play. A study was undertaken to investigate combining activities in these three domains and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Gropen, Jess – 1990
A fundamental problem in language acquisition is determining how children learn the formal vocabulary of the adult grammar. A proposed solution is the Semantic Bootstrapping Hypothesis (SBH), which states that children infer the identity of syntactic entities such as "subject" in input based on the presence of semantic entities such as…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar
Hoffman, Sandra Josephs – 1985
To study the emergence of literacy during the preschool years, a handwritten diary, maintained on a day to day basis, focused on one child, David, from ages two and a half to four and a half. One facet of the study concentrated on his literary language--his incorporation of written texts (children's literature) into his language and background of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Family Environment, Language Acquisition
Yingling, Julie M. – 1983
A study examined patterns of development in spoken interaction and types of causal thought that might reflect the human capacity to displace, that is, to shift reference from the present moment to another moment in time. Participants were four infants and their parents, who came to a laboratory for one-half hour every 2 weeks from the child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Farr, Marcia – 1984
Noting the close relationship among reading, writing, and oral language documented by research, this paper considers studies of early writing development in the context of emergent literacy rather than in the context of work on writing processes and their development. Following a brief review of early studies of emergent literacy that includes…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Children, Emergent Literacy
Gasser, Judith G. – 1984
Reflecting interest in children's language development, including an increased emphasis on written language production, this paper contains a review of research, some assumptions about children's language development, and a list of objectives for a combined literature and writing program for above-average students at the intermediate level. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Integrated Activities