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Peer reviewedLittleton, Peita – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Investigates a strategy for language acquisition adopted by one child and the usefulness of imitation in supporting that strategy. Examination of recordings made of naturally occurring conversations between the child and his parents indicated that he exploited imitation fully in order to acquire language. Imitative utterances surpassed spontaneous…
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
Peer reviewedNelson, Keith E.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This study compared relative effectiveness of imitative treatment and conversational recast treatment in 7 children (ages 55-79 months) with language impairment and 7 controls. Target acquisition was faster under conversational recast treatment for both groups. Language-impaired children learned grammatical structures as efficiently as…
Descriptors: Children, Connected Discourse, Developmental Stages, Grammar
Peer reviewedSigman, Marian; Ungerer, Judy A. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Attempts to identify deficits in object knowledge specific to the autistic syndrome. Examines the correspondence between sensorimotor and play behaviors and language in mentally retarded and normal children. Determines whether these correspondences are different for autistic, mentally retarded, and normal children.(Author/AS)
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Disabilities
Peer reviewedFujiki, Martin; Brinton, Bonnie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Thirteen subjects (aged 5:6 to 6:6) with language disorders were given elicited imitation and spontaneous language tasks, and their performance was compared among and within subjects. The two procedures produced significantly correlated results for some children but not for others. Analysis of specific syntactic forms also produced variable…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expressive Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition
