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Deng, Xiangjun; Mai, Ziyin; Yip, Virginia – First Language, 2018
This study examines the "ba" and "bei" constructions in Mandarin using data from the Tong corpus, a new multimedia longitudinal child language corpus. A unified aspectual account of the two constructions is proposed: both require telic predicates, and should thus correlate with the perfective rather than imperfective aspect for…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics
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Zhang, Di; Wang, Zhibo; Elliot, Robert – International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 2018
The process of the language acquisition of children is reflected in two aspects; language structure and pragmatic functions. Data from "The Longtime Tracing Oral Corpus of Typical Development Children" (one child; 2,367 sentences) are analyzed. This study examines the child's sentence final particle (SFP) "ba", in which we…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Chinese, Case Studies, Language Acquisition
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
Child gender has been proved to affect toddlers'/children's language development in several studies, but its effect was not found to be stable across different ages or various aspects of language ability. The effect of gender on toddler's, children's and adolescents' language ability was examined in the present meta-analysis of ten Slovenian…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Meta Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Letts, Carolyn; Edwards, Susan; Schaefer, Blanca; Sinka, Indra – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This article describes the development of new scales for assessing the status of a young child's language comprehension and production. Items and sections on the scales were included to reflect advances in research on language acquisition and impairment. The New Reynell Developmental Language Scales (NRDLS) were trialled on 301 children and then…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Reliability, Language Impairments, Comparative Analysis
Endo, Mika – 1989
The relationship between the realization of the argument-structure of a verb and its acquisition as a lexical item was investigated in a case study. The subject was a girl aged 2.3 years whose father was a native English-speaker and whose mother was a native Japanese speaker who also spoke English. The child had been born in the United States but…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, English, Foreign Countries
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Dopke, Susanne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
A bilingual child's development of word order in German and English subordinate clauses was followed between age 3 and 5, and a number of diversions from the development of word order in such clauses by monolingual children was noted. (Contains five references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language
Jeffree, Dorothy; McConkey, Roy – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1974
Descriptors: Case Studies, Downs Syndrome, Drafting, Exceptional Child Education
King, Robert W. – 1984
To examine the differences and the unique qualities of third grade writers in relation to their uses of language and their perception of the world, a selection of writings from 20 third grade students was analyzed for language ability as measured by words per T-unit. Then, two students from the higher and two from the lower end of the scale were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Comparative Analysis