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Peer reviewedStewart, Dianne M.; Hamilton, Marshall L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1976
Twenty-four 14- and 30-month-old children observed a model use 20 new words as labels for objects of varied semantic associations. Age was highly and positively correlated with elicited and spontaneous imitation and scores for recognition of the objects associated with the words. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Imitation, Learning, Observational Learning
Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; Kaplan, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 1976
A longitudinal study examining the role of imitation on children's lexical acquisition is discussed here. Findings did not support the view that imitation may enable new lexical items to be acquired, and it is noted that other functions of imitation in language acquisition should be explored. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedReger, Zita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Three discourse-related formal aspects of model-imitation pairs were analyzed longitudinally in successive samples from two Hungarian children. Results revealed an unbroken developmental trend leading to lexically coherent conversational replies and that imitation aided the children in learning the lexicon, making phonological approximations of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammatical Acceptability, Hungarian
