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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Reports on preliminary attempts to find a set of non-linguistic categories in minimally verbal infants. A methodology suitable for the presentation of semantically-defined concepts (agent and recipient) was developed. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition
Leonard, Laurence B. – Acta Symbolica, 1974
A study suggesting semantic rather than syntactic early language acquisition by children. (CH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Lidz, Jeffrey; Waxman, Sandra; Freedman, Jennifer – Cognition, 2003
Examined parental speech data demonstrating that linguistic input to children does not contain sufficient information to support unaided learning of the pronoun "one." Examined 18-month-olds' interpretation of sentences with a "one" substitution. Found that 18-month-olds have command of the syntax of "one." Because…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Experiments, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Osherson, Daniel N. – Cognition, 1978
Human infants are predisposed to organize their experience in terms of certain concepts (natural) and not others (unnatural). Three formal, necessary conditions on the naturalness of concepts are offered. The conditions attempt to link the problem of naturalness to principled distinctions between sense vs nonsense, simplicity vs complexity, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts
Riegel, Klaus F. – 1972
The processes by which the young child recognizes and regenerates some invariant and organizational properties of language are discussed. In these processes the child conjoins and contrasts recurrent segments--perhaps a recurrent word--of the messages presented to him. After repeated exposure to messages containing a common segment, the child…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Robb, Martha; Lord, Catherine – 1981
The range of meanings of "big" and "little" that mothers and their three children under age two expressed in relatively natural communication situations was studied. Longitudinal data from transcripts of conversations of middle-class mothers and their children were analyzed along with diary records kept by parents of their children's use of size…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development