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Montgomery, J. Anne – 1977
Imitation in the speech of the child serves at least three functions in the development of linguistic competence. Imitation provides auditory feedback for phonological and morpho-syntactic accuracy, produces a model for verification and/or clarification by speakers, and "makes time" for the processing and acquisition of information. Beyond these…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Imitation
Download full textGarvey, Catherine; And Others – 1971
It is possible to perform a structural analysis of similar conversations and define units within particular types of conversations to discover the regularities underlying the considerable variation in natural communication. Convergent communication consisting of an exchange of information in pursuit of a mutually agreed upon goal can be seen as a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Mackey, William F. – 1971
At the root of many early childhood bilingual education programs is the widespread belief that the two languages must be used and taught in different contexts, since the failure to do so would inevitably produce a single mixed language. From a study of the results achieved over a ten-year period, it would seem that, if at least one of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Strategies
Rogers, Sinclair – 1975
Twenty-four children aged five and twenty-four children aged six were interviewed individually three times during a calendar year. It was found that not only did the children's language develop over the period, as judged syntactically and lexically, but they also showed an increasingly fluent control over their own style. All the children…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: reading achievement as it relates to child dependency, the development of phonological coding, short-term memory and associative learning, variables available in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Associative Learning, Behavior Patterns, Cloze Procedure
Peer reviewedLenneberg, Eric H. – Science, 1969
The author's purpose in this article is to discuss the aspects of language (especially the development of language in children) to which biological concepts are most appropriately applied. While results of past studies would seem to show that language development is contingent on specific language training, it is important to distinguish between…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Language
