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Download full textCarni, Ellen; French, Lucia – 1982
The "contextual hypothesis" of French and Brown (1977) concerning children's acquisition of temporal terms was tested. French and Brown claimed that it would be impossible for children to learn the meaning of temporal terms except by hearing them used in contexts where they referred to already known sequences, and further proposed that the terms…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Concept Formation, Context Effect
Peer reviewedHarner, Lorraine – Child Development, 1981
Questions whether children's use of language indicates they (1) understand temporal sequence, (2) distinguish goal-oriented from nongoal-oriented activities, and (3) prefer discussing the aspect of events prior to the time of events. Also investigates whether findings for past and future conditions are parallel. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Erbaugh, Mary S. – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
A study of the time- and aspect-marking of 24-month-old native Mandarin-speaking children analyzed their language during free play, and matched fifty utterance samples containing active predicates with all utterances using the perfective suffix "-le." It was found that the children mentioned the future, particularly their immediate intentions,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Chinese, Concept Formation
