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Bramaud du Boucheron, Genvieve – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1983
Summarizes recent trends in French developmental psychology, including those regarding (1) cognitive development as it relates to Piaget's theory, (2) psycholinguistics in preschool children, (3) social interaction, and (4) the structuring of time and space by infants and toddlers. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Infants

Marcos, Haydee; Chanu, Mila Kornhaber-le – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
A study of 13 14-month-old and 12 18-month-old children found that the younger infants relied more on gestures and fussing to express their physical wants, whereas the older infants relied more on vocal responses, especially when clarification of their wants was needed. (MDM)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages

Vihman, Marilyn M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Sampled the speech of American, French, and Swedish mothers to their one-year olds, to analyze distribution of phonetic parameters of adult speech, as well as children's own early words. Found that variability is greater in child words than in adult speech, and mother-child dyads showed no evidence of specific maternal influence on phonetics of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies