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Peer reviewedNinio, Anat – Language Sciences, 1988
A longitudinal study of twenty-four (24) Hebrew-speaking mother-infant dyads during discussions of recent events indicated that mothers commented on a small set of events and tended to mark events with exclamations or formulaic expressions that gradually progressed to a true description of events as the children got older. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Hebrew, Infants, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedBaker, Nancy D.; Greenfield, Patricia M. – Language Sciences, 1988
A longitudinal study of four 17- to 33-month-olds revealed that their linguistic selection at the one-word stage was governed by principles of informativeness, while the two-word stage was characterized by new, or a combination of new and old, information. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedDopke, Susanne – Language Sciences, 1999
Presents longitudinal data from simultaneously bilingual German-English children with respect to development of negation and syntactically related modal particles. Data provide evidence for both language separation and cross-linguistic influence. Relative order of verbs and sequential modifiers appears not to be a principled syntactic operation,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, English
