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Direct linkHe, Agnes Weiyun – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This study examines the simultaneous use of English and Chinese by speakers of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL). It focuses on spontaneous, dynamic, and high-density mixing of the two languages within the smallest building block of a speaking turn: the turn constructional unit (TCU). Drawing upon data from different age and proficiency groups,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Download full textKnudson, Ruth E. – 1992
A study investigated the effects of instruction on students' persuasive writing at two grade levels (third and fifth), and determined the categories and types of written persuasion used by students at four grade levels (3rd, 5th, 10th, and 12th). The first objective, determining instructional effects, was accomplished by specifically instructing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Benelli, Beatrice; And Others – 1987
Four different kinds of story were presented to children aged 4,7, and 10 years and to adults. In the stories, the relationship between basic-level referents mentioned in the first part of the story and the related superordinates mentioned in the second part was changed by means of different kinds of articles introducing the superordinates:…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classification, Comprehension
Walton, Marsha D. – 1980
Previous studies of children's judgments of culpability have usually involved asking children questions about hypothetical actors presented in stories or on videotape. The current study attempted a naturalistic study of attributions of blame by observing children in spontaneously occurring remedial interchanges, situations in which an interactant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis
Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The paper examines the nominal lexicon in later language acquisition as a window on linguistic knowledge and usage across childhood and adolescence. The paper presents a psycholinguistically motivated and cognitively grounded analysis of the distribution of ten semantic noun categories (the Noun Scale) across development, modality, and genre.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Semantics, Nouns, Linguistics
Labrell, Florence – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 1998
Theory and research on parent-child linguistic interactions that focus on the symbolic representation or categorization of objects are discussed, noting the role of such variables as the age of the children, linguistic context, and sex of the involved parent. During the second year of life, even if maternal and paternal games with toddlers are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development
