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Direct linkYuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia; Snedeker, Jesse – Child Development, 2012
Two-year-olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in--"subcategorization frames"--to guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental origins of this ability. The structure-mapping account proposes that children begin with a bias toward one-to-one mapping between nouns in sentences and participant…
Descriptors: Cues, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
Peer reviewedSherrod, Kathryn B.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Infants, Language Research, Language Usage, Mothers
Peer reviewedKoenigsknecht, Roy A.; Friedman, Philip – Child Development, 1976
The Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) procedure was used to collect normative information about the syntax development of male and female children. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Research
Peer reviewedAkiyama, M. Michael – Child Development, 1985
English- and Japanese-speaking children aged four and five were asked to say the opposite of statements. Statements varied in truth value and unmarked/marked membership of antonym pairs. Findings did not support a universality hypothesis; differences were found between the two groups in the use of semantic and syntactic denial. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Children, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedBrown, H, Douglas – Child Development, 1971
Results imply that in early childhood education the language of test instructions and reading programs could be better geared to the child's linguistic competence. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedWaxman, Sandra R.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Three experiments tested 3-year-olds' subordinate classification. The first experiment found that novel noun presentation hindered classification. The second and third experiments found that provision of information for the purpose of distinguishing relevant subclasses, and introduction of novel nouns in conjunction with familiar basic level…
Descriptors: Bias, Classification, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedElardo, Richard – Child Development, 1971
Study offers some evidence which bears on the amount of influence of the environment upon linguistic capacity. (Author)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Environmental Influences, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedLovett, Maureen W. – Child Development, 1979
A sample of 80 first- and second-grade children selected to represent four levels of reading competence were tested in their recognition of semantic, syntactic, and lexical change in sentences previously decoded during prose reading. (JMB)
Descriptors: Early Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Prose
Peer reviewedWarren-Leubecker, Amye; Carter, Beth Warren – Child Development, 1988
Three types of metalinguistic awareness and their relation to socioeconomic status, vocabulary, reading readiness skills, and reading acheivement were longitudinally studied in a sample of 40 kindergartners and 43 first graders. The three metalinguistic tasks were highly interrelated until the effects of oral language comprehension or vocabulary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Language Research
