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Wright, Bridget M.; Benigno, Joann P.; Boster, Jamie B.; McCarthy, John W.; Coologhan, Bridget K. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
Thirty-one children with and without autism spectrum disorder were asked to draw the meaning of 10 basic concepts. Following each drawing, children explained their drawing to the experimenter. Transcripts of the drawing task were coded for children's use of personal pronouns and internal state terms. Children's use of on- and off-task comments…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Expressive Language, Freehand Drawing
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Joanine Hester Nel; Frenette Southwood; Michelle Jennifer White – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages…
Descriptors: African Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Classification
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Sarker, Bijon K.; Baek, Seunghyun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The current study investigated the distinction of L2 (second language) English article choice sensitivity in fifty-three L1-Korean L2-English learners in semantic contexts. In the context of English as a foreign language, the participants were divided into two groups based on grammatical ability as determined by their performance on a cloze test.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), Korean
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Alemán Bañón, José; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
We examined sources of morphological variability in second language (L2) learners of Spanish whose native language (L1) is English, with a focus on L1-L2 similarity, morphological markedness, and knowledge type (receptive vs. expressive). Experiment 1 uses event-related potentials to examine noun-adjective number (present in L1) and gender…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Spanish, Native Language
HUGHES, MARIE M.; TAYLOR, JEWELL C. – 1967
STORIES DICTATED BY STUDENTS FROM GRADES 1 AND 2 OF SCHOOLS IN A POVERTY AREA OF TUCSON, ARIZONA WERE TRANSCRIBED BY CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND ARE REPRODUCED WITH ACCOMPANYING SEMANTIC ANALYSES. ANALYZED FOR BASIC PREDICATION FORMS AND MAJOR FORM-CLASS CONCEPTS WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THEM, THE STORIES ARE PRESENTED TO SHOW (1) DIFFERENCES IN THE…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Expressive Language, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 1
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Çaglar, Mehmet – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2003
If we are to say that mathematics deals only with numbers, then the assumption that having mathematics without language will undoubtedly be correct. To some extent this assumption is true but the main point that needs attention at this stage is how would it be ever possible to talk about mathematics without language. Language is the means of…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Language Skills