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Download full textSpolsky, Bernard; And Others – 1971
In keeping with the objective of the Navajo Reading Study, to investigate the feasibility and effect of teaching Navajo children to read their own language first, it was decided that more needs to be known about Navajo children and the language they know. Thus, between October 1969 and June 1970, 22 adult Navajo interviewers recorded free…
Descriptors: American Indians, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Graphemes
Sartain, Harry W. – 1981
To discover the truth about the extent of children's reading vocabularies, a project was undertaken at the Falk Laboratory School, University of Pittsburgh, to determine how many words first, second, and third grade children could recognize in print. A team of graduate students tabulated the words appearing in commonly used basal materials and in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Computational Linguistics
Wepman, Joseph M.; Hass, Wilbur – 1969
Relatively little research has been done on the quantitative characteristics of children's word usage. This spoken count was undertaken to investigate those aspects of word usage and frequency which could cast light on lexical processes in grammar and verbal development in children. Three groups of 30 children each (boys and girls) from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Function Words
Hall, William S.; And Others – 1980
The word frequency lists presented in this publication were compiled to create a database for further research into vocabulary use, especially the variation in vocabulary due to differences in situation and social group membership. Taken from the natural conversations of 40 target children (four and a half to five years old) with their families,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Language Styles
PDF pending restorationRutherford, R. W., Ed.; Wears, M., Ed. – 1969
Transcriptions of recorded conversations of nine-year-old French children are analyzed and presented in this comparative word count. The actual count of the 55,588 word corpus is arranged alphabetically and contrasted with selected, identical words found in the Francais Fondamental word list. Proper nouns are listed separately at the end of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, French, Language Patterns
