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Using Speech Sounds to Guide Word Learning: The Case of Bilingual Infants
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2007
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual infants. Monolinguals cannot learn minimally different words (e.g., "bih" and "dih") in a laboratory task until 17 months of age ( J. F. Werker, C. T. Fennell, K. M. Corcoran, & C. L. Stager, 2002). This study was extended to 14- to 20-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
Evidence for a Language Learning Strategy: On the Relative Ease of Acquisition of Prefixes and Suffixes.
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Kuczaj, Stan J. II – Child Development, 1979
Tests the hypothesis that children are predisposed to learn suffixes rather than prefixes. Results of four experiments generally support the hypothesis. Importance of language learning strategies and influences of child's experience on strategy use are discussed. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Experience, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Propositional and Appositional Modes of Thought and Differential Cerebral Speech Lateralization in Navajo Indian and Anglo Children.
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Hynd, George W.; Scott, Steve A. – Child Development, 1980
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Children, Cognitive Processes
Factors in the Growth of Linguistic Awareness.
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Bialystok, Ellen – Child Development, 1986
Investigates the metalinguistic ability of monolingual or bilingual children between five and nine years of age on two language tasks (grammaticality judgment and correction). (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Acquisition of the Novel Name-Nameless Category (N3C) Principle.
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; Bertrand, Jacquelyn – Child Development, 1994
Examined the use by children of the Novel Name-Nameless Category principle, under the framework that lexical principles are acquired in a developmental sequence. Results indicated that the particular principle was not available at the start of lexical acquisition but that exhaustive categorization ability and a vocabulary spurt occur…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development