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Download full textAu, Terry Kit-Fong – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two studies were performed to determine the process used by young children to figure out the meaning of a new word. It was hypothesized that the children would use one of two strategies: (1) ignore the word and wait for more information, or learn only what is unambiguous about it, or (2) make a reasonable but uncertain guess, quickly setting up…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Camarata, Stephen M.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
In a study of very young children's pronunciation of nouns and verbs, ten children aged 20 to 25 months were exposed to experimental nouns and verbs, which had not yet been comprehended or produced by the children. Each of the objects and actions was given an experimental name based on phonemes in the children's speech. These objects and actions…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns, Infants
Cho, Sook Whan – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
A study of Korean children's interpretation of the reflexive pronoun "caki" when it precedes a third person noun phrase, that is, in backward anaphora, had as subjects 4- to 11-year-old children living in Korea. Test sentences designed on the basis of two important syntactic aspects in Korean reflexive anaphora--relational hierarchy and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, 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
Budwig, Nancy – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Data drawn from videotapes of children aged 20 to 32 months were analyzed for patterns in the use of various self-reference forms at an age when children rarely refer to others compared to their use at an age when children more regularly refer to others as main participants. First, the distribution of the forms…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants
Lillo-Martin, Diane; And Others – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
In an examination of the acquisition of the spatial syntax of American Sign Language (ASL), 43 children aged 3-10 years were given a range of comprehension and elicitation tests designed to analyze the subsystems involved in the corrrect use of ASL syntax. The subsystems were nominal establishment, verb agreement, and consistency of reference. The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Children, Comprehension
Gelman, Susan A.; And Others – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two experiments examining adults' use of dimensional adjectives focused specifically on the distinction made between height and overall size as determiners of "bigness." The subjects in both experiments were college students. In the first, the hypothesis that the meaning of "big" shifts as a function of the object being…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Age Differences, Area
