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Trautman, Carol Hamer – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A longitudinal study was conducted to examine variations in caregiver input and infant attention in association with children's later lexical and syntactic skills. Fifteen infant-caregiver dyads were videotaped during naturalistic interactions when infants were 9 and 12 months old. Videotapes were coded for caregiver style and modality, and infant…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Infants, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies
Kuo, Li-feng – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Much research on requests has been carried out among L1 Chinese adults, L1 Chinese children, L1 children, L2 adults, and L2 children, but no studies to date have simultaneously examined Chinese children's requests in Chinese (L1) and English (L2). The aim of this study is to investigate how Taiwanese elementary school children vary requests…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics