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Bouchard, Caroline; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann; Boudreault, Marie-Claude; Deneault, Joane – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The purpose of this article is to examine the language of girls and boys between 8 and 30 months of age, using the Quebec French version of The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. The findings from this parental report measure confirm those of earlier research, which showed the linguistic superiority of girls over boys at a young age.…
Descriptors: Females, French Canadians, Foreign Countries, French
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Papousek, Mechthild; Hwang, Shu-Fen C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Native speakers recorded utterances in three role-play contexts: speech to presyllabic infants, foreign language instruction, and adult conversation. For babytalk, speakers neglected, reduced, or modified lexical tonal information in favor of simplified and clarified intonation contours. The implications regarding tone acquisition in children and…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Females, Infants