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Goodman, Kenneth – Viewpoints, 1972
The author argues that a child is linguistically sophisticated by the time he starts school and that his language should be respected even if it does not fit the correct" pattern of the school. (MM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Dialects, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Moskowitz, Breyne Arlene – Scientific American, 1978
Describes the different stages through which children learn to speak, how they break the language down into its simplest parts, and then develop the rules they need to put the parts together. (GA)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language, Language Learning Levels, Language Patterns
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Lewis, Lawrence B.; Antone, Carol; Johnson, Jacqueline S. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Investigated whether the content of infant speech productions is better characterized as preserving stressed and final syllables or as preserving a trochaic pattern; used a detailed longitudinal description of one child's syllable omission. Found that the trochaic template hypothesis was not supported by these early productions. (Author/JPB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Weeks, Thelma E. – 1978
One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intonation
Garvey, Catherine; Dickstein, Ellen – 1970
Previous studies have demonstrated that certain differences in speech behavior can be related to the social characteristics of speakers. However, these studies have not explicitly examined the effect of level of linguistic analysis on correlations observed between language variables and status variables. Three levels of analysis of a linguistic…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, Child Language, Cognitive Ability