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Alamillo, Asela Reig; Colletta, Jean-Marc; Guidetti, Michele – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This article addresses the effect of communicative activity on the use of language and gesture by school-age children. The present study examined oral narratives and explanations produced by children aged six and ten years on the basis of several linguistic and gestural measures. Results showed that age affects both gestural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Children
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Spenader, Jennifer; Smits, Erik-Jan; Hendriks, Petra – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Many comprehension studies have shown that children as late as age 6 ; 6 misinterpret object pronouns as co-referring with the referential subject about half the time. A recent review of earlier experiments testing children's interpretation of object pronouns in sentences with quantified subjects (Elbourne, 2005) also suggests that there is a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Value Judgment, Indo European Languages
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Smolak, Linda; Weinraub, Marsha – Journal of Child Language, 1983
A study was undertaken to separate elements of maternal speech heavily influenced by the children's language levels from those representing the mothers' consistent style or strategy for "teaching" language. A striking similarity was found between speech mothers used with their daughters and that used with their daughters' friends. (MSE)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Mothers
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Peterson, Carole – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Analysis of the use of the connective "but" by 3- to 9-year-olds indicated that all most commonly used the word to signal semantic relationships and for pragmatic functions. Younger children most frequently used "but" when causal or precausal relationships existed, and older children used "but" more to encode complex contrast. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis