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Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Children exhibiting a referential orientation seem more likely to acquire new object names than nonreferentially oriented children. Also, children's selection of words may be influenced by the phonological structure of the words. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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De Weirdt, Willy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Probes the relation between speech perception and reading ability of children who were good or poor readers. Results indicate that reading-related perception differences were especially marked in a comparison of actual and predicted discrimination scores. Identification slope and phoneme boundary differences between reader groups were found as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
Rudegeair, Robert E. – 1972
The linguistic state-of-the-art relevant to the construction of a battery of tests intended to yield language proficiency profiles of preschool children is surveyed in this paper. A basic assumption is that language data can be structured with a model that reflects stages in the development of control over phonological features, morphological…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
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
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Volden, Joanne; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
This study of 80 autistic (ages 6-18), mentally handicapped, and normal children found that more autistic subjects used neologisms and idiosyncratic language than age- and language-skill-matched control groups. More autistic children used words inappropriately that were neither phonologically nor conceptually related to intended English words than…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Elementary Secondary Education
Keller-Cohen, Deborah – 1974
In order to investigate the hypothesis that the conceptualization of sequence precedes that of simultaneity in child development, and to explore the use of elicited imitation in studying lexical acquisition, 32 subjects between 3 and 5 years of age were asked to verbally imitate a list of sentences. The constructions combined simple and reverse…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Martini, Mary – 1978
Noting that many instructional routines discourage complex thought and language, a study examined how teachers and children used language in the first 3 weeks in 3 preschools. Specifically it explored how teachers talk to children, what teachers ask children to do with language, and what children say in school. The language features of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills
Fantini, Alvino E. – 1985
An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and English, by a boy from birth, with data drawn from direct observation and occasional tape recordings of speech. An introductory chapter outlines the objectives and method…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Children
Grosjean, Francois, Ed. – 1989
The journal of linguistics of the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) contains information on the programs and faculty and articles in French (F) and English (E). They include: "From Behavioral Psychology to Sociolinguistics: Ten Years of Linguistics Applied to Language Teaching at Neuchatel" (F); "Intonation and Syntax:…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classroom Techniques, Consonants
Schmidt, Richard W. – 1978
It is possible to communicate effectively in a second language in spite of highly deviant pronunciation and grammar as long as messages are semantically coherent and message forms are reasonably appropriate. Until now, research in second language acquisition has focused principally on the processes through which non-native speakers move towards…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)