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Boloh, Yves; Ibernon, Laure – Cognitive Development, 2010
Grammatical gender is generally considered an early and error-free acquisition in French children. This article first examines how children cope with the gender attribution problem, "i.e.", how they determine the gender of individual nouns. We consider the plausibility and requirements of an account in which tacit phonological assignment rules are…
Descriptors: Nouns, French, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Chan, Angel; Meints, Kerstin; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2010
Act-out and intermodal preferential looking (IPL) tasks were administered to 67 English children aged 2-0, 2-9 and 3-5 to assess their comprehension of canonical SVO transitive word order with both familiar and novel verbs. Children at 3-5 and at 2-9 showed evidence of comprehending word order in both verb conditions and both tasks, although…
Descriptors: Verbs, Familiarity, Word Order, Child Language
Goksun, Tilbe; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Cognitive Development, 2010
Upon witnessing a causal event, do children's gestures encode causal knowledge that (a) does not appear in their linguistic descriptions or (b) conveys the same information as their sentential expressions? The former use of gesture is considered supplementary; the latter is considered reinforcing. Sixty-four English-speaking children aged 2.5-5…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Nonverbal Communication, Preschool Children, Speech Communication
Rigney, Jennifer C.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Cognitive Development, 2011
Parent-child conversations are a potential source of children's developing understanding of the biological domain. We investigated patterns in parent-child conversations that may inform children about biological domain boundaries. At a marine science center exhibit, we compared parent-child talk about typical sea animals with faces (fish) with…
Descriptors: Animals, Speech Communication, Marine Biology, Cognitive Development
Reese, Elaine; Jack, Fiona; White, Naomi – Cognitive Development, 2010
Adolescents (N = 46; M = 12.46 years) who had previously participated in a longitudinal study of autobiographical memory development narrated their early childhood memories, interpreted life events, and completed a family history questionnaire and language assessment. Three distinct components of adolescent memory emerged: (1) age of earliest…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adolescents, Memory, Longitudinal Studies
Matthews, D.; Lieven, E.; Theakston, A.; Tomasello, M. – Cognitive Development, 2005
Akhtar [Akhtar, N. (1999). Acquiring basic word order: Evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure. Journal of Child Language, 26, 339-356] taught children novel verbs in ungrammatical word orders. Her results suggested that the acquisition of canonical word order is a gradual, data-driven process. The current study adapted this…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Verbs, Child Language, Word Order
Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Tomasello, Michael – Cognitive Development, 2006
In many cognitive domains, learning is more effective when exemplars are distributed over a number of sessions than when they are all presented within one session. The present study investigated this "distributed learning effect" with respect to English-speaking children's acquisition of a complex grammatical construction. Forty-eight children…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Research, Language Acquisition, English

Bloom, Lois; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
This study of early word learning focused on the status of object words in early vocabularies. Fourteen children were followed from nine months to two years of age, and monthly vocabulary growth was analyzed. Results indicated that object words represented approximately one-third, on average, of the different words the children learned. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Language Acquisition

Johnson, Carla J. – Cognitive Development, 1994
Children ages five, seven, and nine years named objects with multiple names in a neutral context and in a biased context. Children selected names in accord with nonlinguistic constraints, but at the cost of longer naming times. Both name selection success and associated cost were more evident in older children than in younger children. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Context Effect, Language Acquisition

Prasada, Sandeep – Cognitive Development, 1993
This study of 2.5 and 3.5 year olds indicated that children of this age do not know many names for solid substances but can be taught names for them; that children represent the names as mass nouns and possibly adjectives; and that there is development of children's nonlinguistic knowledge of substances between the ages of 2.5 and 3 years. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education

Tomasello, Michael; Olguin, Raquel – Cognitive Development, 1993
Eight 20- to 26-month-old children were exposed to 4 novel nouns in a game context over several weeks to determine whether, when, and in what ways the children would use them beyond their original linguistic forms. The majority were productive in their use of the nouns, indicating that the grammatical category for noun is operational by age 2.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition

Corrigan, Roberta; Stevenson, Colleen – Cognitive Development, 1994
The causal structure of schemas for the actions and states by different classes of English verbs was examined in the elicited narratives of 19 preschool children. Results showed that verbs within a class elicited similar narratives, whereas across classes the event descriptions varied in the animacy of the event participants and the causal…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition

Lucariello, Joan – Cognitive Development, 1995
Reviews "The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression" (L. Bloom). Underscores that Bloom's account of word learning represents an ethnographic, theoretic, and research approach that explores development by starting with the child, and looks at the many behaviors of the child and views these in relation to…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition

Smith, Linda B.; Jones, Susan S. – Cognitive Development, 1993
Responds to four commentaries on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Suggests that the comments derive from the possibility that stable concepts might not exist and from the difficulty of imagining what cognition could be without represented concepts. Discusses traditional approaches to stability and variability, and considers what…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
Engel, Susan – Cognitive Development, 2005
This paper advances the hypothesis that young children use narrative play and stories to construct two types of fiction, the worlds of "what is" and "what if." Heinz Werner's conceptualization of children's spheres of reality, in which actions, symbols, and events are constructed in particular ways, is used as a theoretical framework for…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Young Children, Play, Narration
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