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Peer reviewedPepperberg, Irene M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation
Peer reviewedReger, Zita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Three discourse-related formal aspects of model-imitation pairs were analyzed longitudinally in successive samples from two Hungarian children. Results revealed an unbroken developmental trend leading to lexically coherent conversational replies and that imitation aided the children in learning the lexicon, making phonological approximations of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammatical Acceptability, Hungarian
