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Redundancy and Complementarity in Language and the Environment: How Intermodal Information Is Combined to Constrain Learning
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Padraic Monaghan; Heather Murray; Heiko Holz – Language Learning, 2024
To acquire language, learners have to map the language onto the environment, but languages vary as to how much information they include to constrain how a sentence relates to the world. We investigated the conditions under which information within the language and the environment is combined for learning. In a cross-situational artificial language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Environmental Influences, Context Effect, Artificial Languages
The Emergence of Sentence Modalities in the English of Japanese-Speaking Children
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Gillis, Mary; Weber, Rose-Marie – Language Learning, 1976
The English of two Japanese boys acquiring English in a natural setting was observed over five months. The analysis and comparison of their language to first language acquisition data showed a striking similarity. There was no clear evidence of transfer from the mother tongue. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Negative Forms (Language)
Speech Addressed to Children: Issues and Characteristics of Parental Input
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Landes, James E. – Language Learning, 1975
Recent research indicates that interaction patterns between parent and child change according to the increasing language skill of the child. These patterns are linguistically summarized here. All are correlated with the child's age, but many relationships are still unexplored. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning: Assertion versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition.
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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)