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Download full textHargis, Charles H. – 1976
This paper outlines the syntactic structures which represent a stage in the cognitive development of children, and focusses on an aspect of cognitive development known as conservation. The cognitive components of conservation are presented as the primordial base for the set of syntactic structures which map or mirror them. Piaget proposed four…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
Bowerman, Melissa – 1977
The acquisition of rules for formulating causative verbs was studied with children over a period of a few years. Most of the data is based on the spontaneous speech of the author's two daughters, from age 2;6 to 6;2 and from age 2;4 to 3;11. It was hypothesized that there are at least two prerequisites for the child's formulation of a general rule…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Lightbown, Patsy M. – 1979
This paper is based on a longitudinal study of the development of questions in the spontaneous speech of two anglophone boys learning French by attending French language schools. The development of form-meaning relations in information questions in the children's French L2 speech was examined and comparisons were made with the same form-meaning…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language)
Bock, J. Kathryn; Hornsby, Mary E. – 1977
The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to either ask or tell an adult or another child to give them puzzle…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Trevisi, Sandra – 1978
This study presents an analysis of the successive steps used by Italian-speaking secondary school students to acquire mastery of the relative pronoun in standard French. This structure was chosen for study because the acquisition of the French relative pronoun is a source of difficulty for Italian learners. An analysis was made of the students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
