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Direct linkRowe, Meredith L.; Levine, Susan C.; Fisher, Joan A.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Children with unilateral pre- or perinatal brain injury (BI) show remarkable plasticity for language learning. Previous work highlights the important role that lesion characteristics play in explaining individual variation in plasticity in the language development of children with BI. The current study examines whether the linguistic input that…
Descriptors: Play, Injuries, Caregiver Child Relationship, Brain
Peer reviewedValian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition
Lee, Joanne N.; Naigles, Letitia R. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
The authors investigated the role of syntax in verb learning in Mandarin Chinese, which allows pervasive ellipsis of noun arguments. Two questions were investigated using the Beijing corpus on CHILDES: (a) Does the input to young children manifest syntactic-semantic correspondences as needed for acquiring verb meanings? (b) Are verbs presented in…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Syntax, Semantics
Peer reviewedHoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Assesses the interrelations among the functional properties of maternal speech, the structural properties of maternal speech, and child language growth for a period of six months for 22 two-year-old children and their mothers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Influences, Interpersonal Communication
Peer reviewedMorgan, James L.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Studied the relationship between parents' correcting of childrens' sentences and children's subsequent grammaticality. Found that parent's language corrections are related to children's subsequent grammaticality but that recasts of incorrect sentences serve as negative leading indicators of grammaticality. Also shows that correction and negative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Error Correction, Language Acquisition
