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Cultural Differences in the Content of Child Talk: Evaluative Lexis of English Monolingual and Spanish-English Bilingual 30-Month-Olds
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Shiro, Martha; Hoff, Erika; Ribot, Krystal M. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We examined the size, content, and use of evaluative lexis by 26 English monolingual and 20 Spanish-English bilingual 30-month-old children in interaction with their mothers. We extracted the evaluative words, defined as words referring to cognition, volition, or emotion. Controlling for overall vocabulary skills as measured by the MacArthur-Bates…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Child Language, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Lexical Development in Korean: Vocabulary Size, Lexical Composition, and Late Talking
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Rescorla, Leslie; Lee, Youn Mi Cathy; Oh, Kyung Ja; Kim, Young Ah – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors aimed to compare vocabulary size, lexical composition, and late talking in large samples of Korean and U.S. children ages 18-35 months. Method: Data for 2,191 Korean children (211 children recruited "offline" through preschools, and 1,980 recruited "online" via the Internet) and 274 U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Vocabulary Development, Lexicology
Social Interaction and Discourse Style: Culture-Specific Parental Styles of Interviewing and Children's Narrative Structure.
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Minami, Masahiko – 1993
The form of Japanese children's personal narratives is distinctly different from that of English-speaking children. Despite follow-up questions that encouraged them to talk about one personal narrative at length, Japanese children spoke succinctly about collections of experiences rather than elaborating on any one experience. Conversations between…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Cross Cultural Studies
Maternal Speech to Prelingual Infants in Japan and the United States: Relationships Among Functions, Forms and Referents.
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Morikawa, Hiromi; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Comparison of maternal speech to three-month-olds between American (N=20) and Japanese (N=20) mother-infant dyads revealed that infant gaze affected the intended functions of maternal speech differently for the two groups. Cultural differences were also seen in the nature of function-form and function-referent relationships. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Mother and Father Speech: Distribution of Parental Speech Features in English and Spanish. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 12.
Blount, Ben G.; Padgug, Elise J. – 1976
Features of parental speech to young children was studied in four English-speaking and four Spanish-speaking families. Children ranged in age from 9 to 12 months for the English speakers and from 8 to 22 months for the Spanish speakers. Examination of the utterances led to the identification of 34 prosodic, paralinguistic, and interactional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Differences, English, Fathers
Spanish: A New Approach to Bilingual Programs.
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Sancho, Anthony R. – 1972
The child in the bilingual education situation must be aware of the two languages involved as two separate systems corresponding to the two distinct cultural entities that are part of his environment. The child must learn to separate, yet identify with, each system as a useful and necessary means of communication. The teacher-directed method is…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Techniques