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Theakston, Anna L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study, 5-year-olds and adults described scenes that differed according to whether (a) the subject or object of a transitive verb represented an accessible or inaccessible referent, consistent or inconsistent with patterns of preferred argument structure, and (b) a simple noun was sufficient to uniquely identify an inaccessible referent.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Adults

Ford, William; Olson, David – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Two experiments were conducted to determine whether children, ages 4-7 assign invariant labels to objects or describe the objects in terms of the context of alternatives. The acquisition of adjective ordering rules and information limits on children's utterances were also examined. (JMB)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Age Differences, Child Language, Early Childhood Education

Mullet, Etienne; Rivet, Isabelle – Language and Communication, 1991
A study explored the ability of children to comprehend expressions of uncertainty in varying degrees (e.g., "not likely, possible, probable"). Subjects were 42 French students aged approximately 9, 12, and 15. Results, including age and gender differences, and implications for classroom communication are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Classroom Communication

Szagun, Gisela – Child Development, 1978
Samples of spontaneous speech were collected from 20 English and 20 German preschool children and their mothers. The children's frequency of use of various tenses was compared at different age levels within each language, across languages, and with their mothers' frequency of tense usage in speech to the children. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries

Clark, Eve V.; Carpenter, Kathie L. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
A study of two- to six-year-olds' spontaneous uses of "from" to mark oblique agents showed that, while the two-year-olds produced "from" for agents and "with" for instruments in imitation, older subjects shifted to "by" for agents and kept "from" to mark locative sources. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition

Pelligrino, Maria Luisa Morra; Scopesi, Alda – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Examined how Italian day-care teachers (N=5) spoke to young children and adjusted their language according to age and size of groups. It was found that teachers made both structural and functional modifications of language according to childrens' ages and the size of groups, with group size exerting a greater influence on the features of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Caregivers, Child Language
Schwartz, Judy I. – 1977
This paper presents a study of metalinguistic awareness in young children. Metalinguistic awareness refers to the child's ability to concentrate on the sounds and patterns of language rather than on its communicative aspects. Metalinguistic awareness was studied by analyzing the verbal play and verbal games of 149 children from 6 months to 10…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Elementary School Students, Infants

Curtiss, Susan; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1979
The pragmatic and semantic categories used by Ss varied across age groups. Results are discussed with regard to age, expressive modality, mean length of utterances, and hearing loss. There was much variation among these parameters in communicative development across Ss. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments

Cox, Maureen V. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Investigation of four- through six-year-olds' abilities to correct over-regularized plural nouns and verbs in the past tense showed that, generally, older children performed better than the younger children, and plural nouns were corrected significantly more than past-tense verb forms. Younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammatical Acceptability
Glazewski, Barbara; McCune, Lorraine – 1984
A study of the babbling and phonological development of 54 infants used half-hour videotape recordings of the children at play in their own homes. The vocal output was phonetically transcribed twice for interrater agreement, and analyzed for the consonants used five times or more in the child's vocal repertoire. These consonants were considered to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Consonants, Infants
Bernicot, J. – 1989
A study designed to examine the variation that occurs in the request production of children between the ages of 6 and 7 observed the kind of requests children make, what they request, whom they ask, and how they formulate their ideas. Twenty native French-speaking children divided into two age groups (6- and 7-year-olds) were asked to complete two…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis

Smith, Herman W. – Small Group Behavior, 1977
Examines age differences in social interaction. Subjects range in age from five to 20. Results indicate female groups develop towards adult interpersonal behavior styles earlier than male groups. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Individual Development, Interaction Process Analysis

Franco, Jon; Landa, Alazne – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1998
Basque auxiliary verbs encode tense, agreement relations with ergative, absolutive, and dative arguments, which constitute an inflectional verbal amalgam whose acquisition is not problematic for Spanish-speaking children but is for Spanish-speaking adults. This asymmetry is due to different processes by which the inflectional amalgam is acquired.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Basque, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
Pellegrini, A. D. – 1981
The intent of this study was to examine the development of three aspects of preschoolers' private speech: coefficients of egocentricism, the extent to which speech regulates actions, and the syntactic and semantic structures of individual utterances. Forty-one randomly chosen preschoolers (26 females, 15 males) were placed in three age groups (3,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Egocentrism, Language Acquisition

Livingston, Kenneth R. – 1979
A theoretical distinction is made between the growth of word meaning and the development of word sense in Vygotsky's terms. A recall from semantic memory task and the semantic differential were used to operationalize these two conceptions of meaning in a study of 72 children aged 5 to 10 years. Results replicated typical findings for the growth of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Language Acquisition
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