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Zhang, Fangfang; McCabe, Allyssa; Ye, Jiaqi; Wang, Yan; Li, Xiaoyan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
To investigate the narrative development of Chinese-speaking children aged 3--6 years, 80 children were prompted to tell personal stories. High point analysis was used and both narrative components and overall narrative patterns were analyzed. In terms of narrative components, Chinese children were more skillful in using complicating action,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Personal Narratives, Language Patterns, Discourse Analysis
Theakston, Anna L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study, 5-year-olds and adults described scenes that differed according to whether (a) the subject or object of a transitive verb represented an accessible or inaccessible referent, consistent or inconsistent with patterns of preferred argument structure, and (b) a simple noun was sufficient to uniquely identify an inaccessible referent.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Adults

Peterson, Carole – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Analysis of the use of the connective "but" by 3- to 9-year-olds indicated that all most commonly used the word to signal semantic relationships and for pragmatic functions. Younger children most frequently used "but" when causal or precausal relationships existed, and older children used "but" more to encode complex contrast. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis

Light, Leah L.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1994
Suggests that the increase in older adults (as compared to young adults) of uses of ambiguous reference is not caused by age- or cohort-related differences in knowledge structures needed to determine coreference based on plausibility; availability or weighing of strategies for using anaphoric devices; or assumptions about the degree of specificity…
Descriptors: Age, Age Differences, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Bernicot, J. – 1989
A study designed to examine the variation that occurs in the request production of children between the ages of 6 and 7 observed the kind of requests children make, what they request, whom they ask, and how they formulate their ideas. Twenty native French-speaking children divided into two age groups (6- and 7-year-olds) were asked to complete two…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis

Torres, Lourdes – World Englishes, 1989
Examines code mixing and borrowing across two generations of New York Puerto Ricans, and explores the possibility of existence of a lifecycle of language use in the community. (26 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)

Cotton, Eleanor G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Discusses nominal-pronominal reduplication (NPR) in the language of children ages seven and nine in four situations. Younger children produced more NPR; all children produced little NPR talking to their peers and increasing amounts talking to adults. Examples are given and analyzed. (EJS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students
Walton, Marsha D. – 1980
Previous studies of children's judgments of culpability have usually involved asking children questions about hypothetical actors presented in stories or on videotape. The current study attempted a naturalistic study of attributions of blame by observing children in spontaneously occurring remedial interchanges, situations in which an interactant…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis

Boggs, Stephen T. – Language in Society, 1978
Describes a pattern of verbal disputing frequently engaged in by children in Hawaii who have some Polynesian ancestry. This pattern, which is characterized by the forceful use of "not!" as an outright contradiction of one speaker by another, is traced from early childhood into adolescence in the context of relationships in which it develops. (EJS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Children

Finney, Malcolm A. – Second Language Research, 1997
A study investigated late emergence, in learners of English as a Second Language, of the ability to interpret object gaps in purpose clauses (PCs). Subjects were 34 adult native speakers of French. Results indicate difficulty interpreting only PCs with prepositional object gaps, supporting the hypothesis that syntactically marked construction may…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Taura, Hideyuki – 1996
This study examined Japanese/English code-switching in three different contexts: a bilingual radio program broadcast in Japan; language of two bilingual siblings; and an adult bilingual dinner party. Particular attention was paid to the situational meanings of code-switching and to politeness issues. Code-switching was examined first at four…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Bilingualism, Children
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen – 1994
This study investigated the hypothesis that in language contact situations, bilinguals develop strategies aimed at lightening the cognitive load of having to remember and use two different linguistic systems, resulting in changes in the secondary language. The study examined four specific strategies (simplification of grammatical categories and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Diachronic Linguistics
Okuyama, Yoshiko – 1996
Two related studies investigated (1) the extent to which native language input to five Japanese children was varied based on the children's age, and (2) the effectiveness of adult Japanese second language input to a three-year-old American child during a one-month period in Japan. In the first study, interactions of adult-child dyads were compared…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis