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Direct linkAlexandra Diamond – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
This qualitative ethnographic research explores baby talk (BT) and ontology of infancy in a small, rural Indo-Fijian community via semistructured interviews with mothers about their children's language learning, mothers' narratives about their photographs of their young children engaged in everyday language, and audio- and video-recordings of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition
Wright Karem, Rachel; Washington, Karla N. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of standardized assessments of expressive grammar and vocabulary in a sample of preschool-age dual language learners (DLLs) who use Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Adult models from the same linguistic community as these children were used to inform culturally and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Standardized Tests, Preschool Children, Expressive Language
Pérez-Hernández, Lorena; Duvignau, Karine – First Language, 2016
The present study looks into the largely unexplored territory of the cognitive underpinnings of semantic approximations in child language. The analysis of a corpus of 233 semantic approximations produced by 101 monolingual French-speaking children from 1;8 to 4;2 years of age leads to a classification of a significant number of them as instances…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Child Language, Figurative Language
Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Socio-Economic Status (SES) on Hebrew-speaking children's developing ability to pluralize nouns and mark adjectives in agreement with them. Participants were 180 gradeschool children from mid-high SES and 180 peers from low SES, in six consecutive grade levels. The task consisted of 32…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Socioeconomic Background, Nouns
Benelli, Beatrice; And Others – 1987
Four different kinds of story were presented to children aged 4,7, and 10 years and to adults. In the stories, the relationship between basic-level referents mentioned in the first part of the story and the related superordinates mentioned in the second part was changed by means of different kinds of articles introducing the superordinates:…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classification, Comprehension
Download full textNinio, Anat – 1991
A study on children's speech is prefaced by an extensive theoretical discussion. An attempt to construct a taxonomy that captured psychologically real, discrete types of communicative acts in mother-child interactions was based on the insight that verbal utterances are social acts that are meaningful in particular social situations. The taxonomy…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Context Effect, Foreign Countries
Dittmar, Norbert, Ed.; And Others – 1978
Papers included in this volume are: "The Muted Voice of Immigrant Workers;""The Situation of Foreign Workers in Sweden"; "Situation of Foreign Workers in the Federal Republic of Germany"; "Teaching German to Immigrant Children"; "Using Language Typology in Contrastive Studies"; "On Determining…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Classification
