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Peer reviewedVilliers, Peter A. de; Villiers, Jill G. de – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972
Research supported in part by a Public Health Service grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Development. (VM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Experiments
Peer reviewedShatz, Marilyn; Ebeling, Karen – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Examines four kinds of language learning-related behaviors (LLRBs) in the home conversations of 6 English children studied for 6 months from age 2.6 years. The role of LLRBs in frequency and range and in the frequency of grammatical productions during spontaneous revisions is addressed. (44 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedKessel, Frank S. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1970
This monograph is based on a doctoral thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in August 1969. (MG)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedDe Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
A total of 336 French children between 4 and 10 years old were asked to draw representations of French negative sentences. It was demonstrated that the interpretation of negative sentences depends on phenomena of surface as well as deep structure. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Download full textScollon, Ronald – 1974
In speaking a child sometimes makes constructions in which a sequence of separate utterances expresses a semantic relation not expressed by either utterance. These "vertical constructions" are the main point of this study. Previous studies of construction in child language have largely dealt with sentences. In this study, sentences are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Language Acquisition
Clark, Eve V., Ed.; And Others – 1989
Papers in this volume include the following: "The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning" (Lila R. Gleitman); "Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut" (Shanley Allen, Martha Crago); "Why Do Children Omit Subjects?" (Paul Bloom); "Acquiring Language in a Creole Setting: Theoretical and Methodological…
Descriptors: Adverbs, American Sign Language, Child Language, Chinese
