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Peer reviewedDe Boysson-Bardie, Benedicte; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Cross-cultural investigation of the influence of target-language in infant babbling analyzed 1047 vowels produced by 10-month-olds (N=20) from French, English, Cantonese, and Arabic language backgrounds. Results revealed differences among infants across language backgrounds, with the differences paralleling those found in adult speech in the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Cantonese, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedAkiyama, Michael M. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Tests the universality hypothesis of language acquisition by asking young monolingual English and Japanese children to verify true affirmatives, false affirmatives, false negatives, and true negatives. The hypothesis was not supported in the case of Japanese-speaking children. A theory of cross-linguistic language acquisition is proposed.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
