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Direct linkMastin, J. Douglas; Voght, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study analyzes how others engage rural and urban Mozambican infants during naturalistic observations, and how the proportion of time spent in different engagements relates to infants' language development over the second year of life. Using an extended version of Bakeman and Adamson's (1984) categorization of infant engagement, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Infants, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedSchachter, Frances Fuchs; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Interpersonal functions of everyday caretaker speech usage are examined when addressed to toddlers, threes and fours. Results support hypotheses derived from Piagetian theory concerning early developments in ego-differentiation. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Observation
Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US
Aukrust, Vibeke Grover – Journal of Child Language, 2004
Recent studies have suggested that cultures vary in subtle ways in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce. Twenty-two three-year-old children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway and Cambridge, Massachusetts were observed during mealtime with the aim of identifying talk-focused talk. The analysis distinguished talk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGoldman, Laurence Richard – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Considers the culturally patterned set of analogic renamings found in Huli baby talk, nursery rhymes, and children's verbal games. An analysis of socialization activities shows a marked concern with body motifs and appellations and inter-adult behavior involving talk about the body, and showing that such language sensitizes children to cultural…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
