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Konopczynski, Gabrielle – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This article deals with an important question in the area of developmental psycholinguistics. It studies the conditions for a presyntactcic utterance to become a "canonical sentence" or "canonical utterance" at the stage of the two-word combinations. Two main points are highlighted: (1) how a prelinguistic utterance between 9-12 months of age can…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Infants
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Lucariello, Joan – Cognitive Development, 1995
Reviews "The Transition from Infancy to Language: Acquiring the Power of Expression" (L. Bloom). Underscores that Bloom's account of word learning represents an ethnographic, theoretic, and research approach that explores development by starting with the child, and looks at the many behaviors of the child and views these in relation to…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Budwig, Nancy – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Data drawn from videotapes of children aged 20 to 32 months were analyzed for patterns in the use of various self-reference forms at an age when children rarely refer to others compared to their use at an age when children more regularly refer to others as main participants. First, the distribution of the forms…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants
Erbaugh, Mary – 1980
Child acquisition of Mandarin was studied with four middle class families from Taipei, Taiwan. The 2-year-olds were taped at home playing with their families. Two of the children were taped for short periods (7 hours and 9 hours), while the other two children were studied biweekly for 14 months, which resulted in 71 hours of transcribed child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research