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Esch, Barbara E.; Esch, John W.; Palmer, David C. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2017
When the B. F. Skinner Foundation reprinted Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" in 1992, Jack Michael wrote one of its two forewords, a detailed outline of the book's purpose and scope. On the 60th anniversary of the first publication (1957) of "Verbal Behavior", Jack reflects on the book's impact and its importance to the…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Language Usage, Operant Conditioning, Language Acquisition
Towson, Jacqueline; Canty, Meredith; Schwartz, Jamie; Barden, Sejal; Sims, Tianna – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
Research regarding specific strategies adolescent mothers (AMs) may utilize to facilitate early language and emergent literacy skills in their children is lacking. This exploratory study investigated AMs' perceived use of preselected common language and emergent literacy strategies and correlated their use of these strategies to their children's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mothers, Early Parenthood, Emergent Literacy
Longobardi, Emiddia; Lonigro, Antonia; Laghi, Fiorenzo; O'Neill, Daniela K. – First Language, 2017
The study was designed to investigate pragmatic development and the ability to make comments/questions on social and non-social topics in Italian-speaking children aged 18-47 months. Parents of 190 children completed an adaptation of the Language Use Inventory into Italian. Overall, the children's performance on the subscales of the LUI-Italian…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Guidelines, Italian, Verbal Communication
Gilkerson, Jill; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Topping, Keith J. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2017
Early language development predicts later reading competence, but does reading to young children enhance the language interaction between them and their parents? Automatic assessment of language interaction now yields adult word counts, conversational turn counts and child vocalization counts. This study had 98 families return reading activity…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Language Skills
Kuhn, Laura J.; Willoughby, Michael T.; Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Blair, Clancy B. – Child Development, 2014
Using an epidemiological sample (N = 1,117) and a prospective longitudinal design, this study tested the direct and indirect effects of preverbal and verbal communication (15 months to 3 years) on executive function (EF) at age 4 years. Results indicated that whereas gestures (15 months), as well as language (2 and 3 years), were correlated with…
Descriptors: Epidemiology, Nonverbal Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Verbal Communication
Spencer, Trina D.; Higbee, Thomas S. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Children with autism often use newly acquired language in restricted contexts and with limited variability. Instructional tactics that embed generalization technology have shown promise for increasing spontaneity, response variation, and the generalized use of language across settings, people, and materials. In this study, we explored the…
Descriptors: Autism, Generalization, Language Usage, Scripts
Venuti, P.; de Falco, S.; Esposito, G.; Zaninelli, M.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Children with developmental disabilities benefit from their language environment as much as, or even more than, typically developing (TD) children, but maternal language directed to developmentally delayed children is an underinvestigated topic. The purposes of the present study were to compare maternal functional language directed to children…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delays
Luk, Jasmine C. M. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2013
This article discusses a study on how language use and language development can be promoted through engaging students in different participation roles in board games. Theoretically, the study is grounded in sociocultural perspectives of activity theory and the role of play as a form of human motivation. A group of Grade 4 primary students learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Games
Goralik, L. – Russkij Yazyk za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Verbal Communication
Barbour, Nita Hale – 1976
This study investigated the relationships between teacher facilitative or directive verbal behavior in nursery school classrooms and seven aspects of child language change. Twenty-eight nursery teachers and 95 children from these classrooms were selected for this study. The teacher verbal behavior was measured by the Withall Social Climate Index,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Preschool Children, Preschool Education

Smolak, Linda; Weinraub, Marsha – Journal of Child Language, 1983
A study was undertaken to separate elements of maternal speech heavily influenced by the children's language levels from those representing the mothers' consistent style or strategy for "teaching" language. A striking similarity was found between speech mothers used with their daughters and that used with their daughters' friends. (MSE)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Mothers

Shotick, Andrew; Blue, C. Milton – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Age Differences, Communication (Thought Transfer), Intelligence, Language Acquisition

Phillips, Jerri Linn; Balthazar, Earl E. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1979
Progress or deterioration in language use was observed in two samples (one of 59 Ss, the other of 20 Ss) of severely retarded institutionalized residents (mean age 14.8 years). (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Conant, Susan; Budoff, Milton – Journal of Childhood Communication Disorders, 1986
Speech samples were elicited twice (four months apart) from a 4-year-old language delayed child. Clinical analysis involved examination of conversational turns and words, length of unit, speech act variables, amount of speech, and syntax. Although results clearly indicated an unmistakable surge in expressive language, analysis did not explain the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition

Ferguson, Charles A. – Language in Society, 1976
The use of interpersonal verbal routines such as greetings and thanks is examined as a universal phenomenon of human languages. Examples from Syrian Arabic, American English and other languages are used to show differing patterns of structure and use, susceptible of grammatical and sociolinguistic analysis. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals