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Direct linkHeizmann, Tanja – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This thesis investigates children's acquisition of exhaustivity across four structures: quantifiers, single questions, multiple questions and clefts. Two languages, English and German, are probed. Exhaustivity needs some sort of plural set to be mentioned without leaving out a member of that set. This dissertation provides experimental data…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English, German, Language Research
Minami, Masahiko – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in research on language acquisition in recent decades. Researchers in various fields, such as developmental psychology and psycholinguistics, have investigated bilingual populations from different perspectives in order to understand better how bilingualism affects cognitive abilities like…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Metalinguistics, Developmental Psychology, Language Acquisition
Download full textGarnica, Olga K. – 1971
Speech discrimination by 12 children aged about 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 years was tested, using the discrimination learning procedure of Shvachkin's 1948 Russian study. Recent work on the acquisition of syntax and semantics shows an ordered acquisition for linguistic items; this pilot study was to test whether the ability to discriminate between consonants…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Child Language, Consonants
Moore, Timothy E., Ed. – 1973
This volume deals with various aspects of the relationship between linguistic ability and general cognitive development. It presents original, up-to-date research for child psychologists, linguists, psycholinguists, scholars, teachers, and students interested in this field and interprets the findings in the context of contemporary linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Huerta, Ana – 1977
Research was conducted to examine the language acquisition of a Mexican-American child who has been brought up in a linguistic environment where code-switching between Spanish and English is the dominant style of speaking. In addition, the relation of code- switching to the acquisition of bilingualism is analyzed. The speech of the subject, a…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Child Development, Child Language
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with the following topics: oral language characteristics of college freshmen; the language development of a modern day "wild child"; children's understanding of relational terms; the relationship of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
