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De Ruiter, Laura E. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Recent research on adult German suggests that speakers use particular pitch accent types to signal the information status of discourse referents. This study investigates to what extent German five- and seven-year-olds have acquired this mapping. Semi-natural speech data was obtained from a picture-elicited narration task in which the information…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Intonation, Discourse Modes
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Greenfield, Patricia M.; Savage-Rumbaugh, E. Sue – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Through analysis of chimpanzee-human discourse, study shows that four chimpanzees exposed to humanly devised symbol system use partial or complete repetition of others' symbols. They do not produce rote imitations but use repetition to fulfill variety of pragmatic functions in discourse. Theories are advanced regarding meaning of two differences…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis
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Hoyle, Susan M. – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Reports on four school-age boys' use of the specialized register of sportscasting as performed both spontaneously and when elicited by the researcher, and compares the boys' production of formal register-marking features to adult usage. (27 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Adults, Athletics, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Orsolini, Margherita; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates the reintroduction of referents in the "Frog Stories" told by Italian children, aged 4-10 (n=100). The study confirms that elementary school children are more competent than preschoolers in integrating the semantic content of the current utterance into the context generated by previous discourse.(Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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De Boysson-Bardie, Benedicte; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Cross-cultural investigation of the influence of target-language in infant babbling analyzed 1047 vowels produced by 10-month-olds (N=20) from French, English, Cantonese, and Arabic language backgrounds. Results revealed differences among infants across language backgrounds, with the differences paralleling those found in adult speech in the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Cantonese, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
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Cziko, Gary A.; Koda, Keiko – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Investigation of use of stative, process, punctual, and non-punctual verbs by a child acquiring Japanese as a first language found that sampled present progressive verb forms occurred with process verbs while these forms were never used with stative verbs. Most omissions of present progressive forms occurred with the early use of "mixed"…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis