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Blanchard, Daniel; Heinz, Jeffrey; Golinkoff, Roberta – Journal of Child Language, 2010
How do infants find the words in the speech stream? Computational models help us understand this feat by revealing the advantages and disadvantages of different strategies that infants might use. Here, we outline a computational model of word segmentation that aims both to incorporate cues proposed by language acquisition researchers and to…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Lee, Sue Ann S.; Davis, Barbara L. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This study compared segmental distribution patterns for consonants and vowels in English infant-directed speech (IDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS). A previous study of Korean indicated that segmental patterns of IDS differed from ADS patterns (Lee, Davis & MacNeilage, 2008). The aim of the current study was to determine whether such differences…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Phonemes, English
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Lust, Barbara; Mazuka, Reiko – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Argues that current attempts to show that forward directionality effects can also be induced in Japanese acquisition do not succeed in supporting the forward directionality preference of anaphora. (57 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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de Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1981
Analyzes the late babbling productions of a French child and compares them with data from similar studies of English and Thai children. Shows that although the French child and his English counterparts share some universal phonetic preferences, a selective, language-specific phonetic acquisition takes place during the babbling stage. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
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Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Pye, Clifton – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Compares and analyzes speech samples of Mayan and American mothers addressing their infant children. Results indicate that although higher pitch has been described as a universal feature of baby talk registers worldwide, the Mayan mothers do not utilize this feature. It is suggested that pitch-raising strategies may be sociolinguistically…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Infants, Language Research
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Erreich, Anne; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Presents an outline for a theory of syntax acquisition, surveys other approaches to language acquisition, and addresses the following methodological issues: (1) the relevance of linguistic theory to the model; (2) how the model is tested; and (3) the domain of the theory. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals
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Johnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
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Davis, Katharine – Journal of Child Language, 1995
This study examined adult and child word-initial voice onset time productions in English and Hindi to determine the age of acquisition of the phonemic voice contrast. Cross-linguistic differences in patterns of acquisition were found, but these were not necessarily traced to the different phonological systems. (JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, English, Hindi
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Clumeck, Harold – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Examines the relationship between phonetic substitution patterns in child speech and sound change patterns in dialects of adult language, basing an explanation of these phenomena on acoustic data and language universals. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Child Language
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Choi, Soonja – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Analysis of negative utterances from English-, French-, and Korean-speaking one- through three-year-olds identified nine distinct semantic/pragmatic categories with a similar developmental order in all three languages. Different patterns were found in the form-function relationship for the different categories. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, English, French
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Hickmann, Maya; Hendriks, Henriette – Journal of Child Language, 1999
The aim of this study was to determine universal versus language-specific aspects of children's ability to organize cohesive anaphoric relations in discourse. Analyses examine narratives produced on the basis of two picture sentences by subjects of four ages (preschoolers, 7-year olds, 10-year olds, and adults) in four languages: English, German,…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis