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Sejung Yang – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Testing is increasingly recognized as a vital part of language revitalization. I demonstrate here that assessment of linguistic knowledge should also be part of the planning process that precedes the creation of a revitalization program. I take as an example Jejueo, the language of Korea's Jeju Island. Whereas previously published work…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Vocabulary Skills, Language Patterns
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Wechsler, Stephen – Language, 2010
This article offers a DE SE THEORY of person indexicals, wherein first- and second-person indexical pronouns indicate REFERENCE DE SE (also called SELF-ASCRIPTION). Long observed for first-person pronouns (Castaneda 1977, Kaplan 1977, Perry 1979, inter alia), self-ascription is extended here to second person as well. The person feature of a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Autism, Cognitive Ability
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Howell, Peter; Bailey, Eleanor; Kothari, Nayomi – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Three schemes for assessing stuttering were compared. They differed with respect to whether they included whole-word repetitions as characteristics more typical of stuttering. Persistent and recovered groups of children were examined to see whether: (1) one of the schemes differentiated the groups better than others; (2) more and less typical of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Syllables, Stuttering, Child Development
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Sera, Maria D.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1994
Three experiments compared the assignment of gender to masculine and feminine pictured objects as classified by Spanish grammatical gender, by English- and Spanish-speaking children, and by adults. Results revealed artificial-male/natural female conceptual division among speakers of English and delayed effects of grammatical gender among speakers…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Classification, Concept Formation
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Bigler, Rebecca S. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated the effect of using gender as a functional category in elementary school students' gender stereotyping. Results support the idea that the functional use of gender categories leads to increases in gender stereotyping, particularly among those children with less-advanced classification skills. Advanced classification skills proved to…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
Dougherty, Janet W. D. – 1976
The distribution of errors in children's responses in four elicitation tests of their color-naming abilities is explored with a view to clarifying states of ignorance. Subjects include 47 Polynesian children ranging in age from 2 to 12 years. The four experiments include a naming task, two identification tasks and a mapping task. Children are…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Tests