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Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development
Hills, Thomas T.; Maouene, Mounir; Maouene, Josita; Sheya, Adam; Smith, Linda – Cognition, 2009
The shared features that characterize the noun categories that young children learn first are a formative basis of the human category system. To investigate the potential categorical information contained in the features of early-learned nouns, we examine the graph-theoretic properties of noun-feature networks. The networks are built from the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Toddlers, Children, Child Language

Cox, M. V.; Richardson, J. Ryder – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study of children's production of locative prepositions in order to test H. Clark's hypotheses regarding the acquisition of spatial terms. Subjects were required to describe the spatial arrangement of two balls arranged in each of three spatial dimensions. (SED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition

Ninio, Anat – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Ostensive definitions of words are ambiguities as to their referent. In a study of infant-mother dyads engaged in looking at picture books, 95 percent of ostensive definitions referred to the whole object depicted rather than parts, attributes, or actions. When parts were named, ambiguity was avoided by naming the part and the whole. (PJM)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition

Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study designed to compare color-name with shape-name learning by three-year-old children in an experimentally controlled format. Results show that children learned color-label associates significantly more slowly than matched shape-label associates, and they committed more errors with colors than with shapes during learning. Provides a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Charney, Rosalind – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Pronoun mastery demands a knowledge of speech roles and an ability to identify oneself and others in those roles. Twenty-one girls' knowledge of "my,""your," and "her" was assessed when they were speakers, addressees, and nonaddressed listeners. The children were aware of speech roles only when they themselves occupied these roles. (PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition

Budwig, Nancy; Wiley, Angela – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Uses longitudinal data on language acquisition to examine children's language and sense of self and others. Referential analysis of children's discourse found that children do locate self and other in a spatio-temporal realm. Form-function analysis found that children's discourse about self was more varied in form and in semantic and pragmatic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies
Gentner, Dedre – 1982
There is overwhelming evidence that children's first words are primarily nouns even across languages. These data are interpreted as evidence of a "Natural Partitions Theory," one that holds that the concepts referred to by nouns are conceptually more basic than those referred to by verbs or prepositions. Analysis of data from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition

Barrett, Martyn D. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
The hypothesis explains the early lexical development of children and the predictions of this hypothesis are shown to be consistent with available data on overextension. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Lexicology, Perceptual Development

Ross, Gail; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Reports a study which examines some of the properties of objects to determine whether the number of different examples of an object concept presented to infants influences concept learning and generalization and to discover whether children's behavior and language in relation to new objects influence learning the concept and generalization to new…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Generalization, Infants

Hebb, D. O.; And Others – Modern Language Journal, 1971
Research supported by a grant from the Defense Research Board of Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavioral Objectives, Child Language, Diagrams

Feagans, Lynne – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Studies the perceptual relationship between temporal "before" and "after" and their spatial counterparts. Adults reported temporal "before" related to spatial "after" and temporal "after" related to spatial "before." Three-year old children better understood spatial "after" and spatial "before," suggesting a temporal/spatial semantic acquisition…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Anastasiow, Nicholas – 1970
Research findings concerned with the relationship between the child's oral language behavior and learning to read are described. A cognitive-biological approach to the child's perceptual system development is taken, and data are presented to support both the developmental point of view of language development and the point of view that the child…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Cognitive Processes

Cruttenden, Alan – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article discusses children's phonological limitations, including perceptual difficulties and productive difficulties. (NCR)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition

Higgs, Jo Ann Williamson; Hodson, Barbara Williams – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
Adults and 4-year-old children were tested to determine whether the children were able to decode sets of familiar minimal pairs as well as adults. They listened to words spoken in a normal voice and a whisper. Indications were that the 4-year-old's perceptual mastery of English phonology is not yet complete. (SW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns