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Höhle, Barbara; Pauen, Sabina; Hesse, Volker; Weissenborn, Jürgen – Language Learning, 2014
In this article we report on early rhythmic discrimination performance of children who participated in a longitudinal study following children from birth to their 6th year of life. Thirty-four children including 8 children with a family risk for developmental language impairment were tested on the discrimination of trochaic and iambic disyllabic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Memory, Language Skills, German
Chen, Li-Mei; Kent, Raymond D. – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Early prosodic development (f[subscript 0] variation) was systematically measured in Mandarin-learning infants at the transition from babbling to producing first words. Spontaneous vocalizations of twenty-four infants aged 0;7 to 1;6 were recorded in 45-minute sessions. The speech production of twenty-four caregivers was also audio-recorded during…
Descriptors: Speech, Suprasegmentals, Caregivers, Infants
Hornby, Peter A.; Hass, Wilbur A. – J Speech Hearing Res, 1970
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Farrell, John – Highway One, 1986
Cites examples of surprise combinations of words that give sudden pleasure to a listener or reader.
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Humor, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Jolly, Yukiko S. – Modern Language Journal, 1975
The points of similarity between the language and music of a given language are discussed as a theoretical justification for the use of songs in language teaching. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cultural Exchange, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction, Language Patterns

von Raffler Engel, W.; Sigelman, C. K. – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
Allen, George D. – 1976
This study discusses the nature of rhythm as it may apply to speech and language, reviews some of the literature on the development of rhythm, and presents some thoughts relating these findings to specific examples of children's speech. There is evidence to support the view that one need not look at the exact rhythm of any utterance, but only for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Boyle, Joseph P. – System, 1987
A literature review pertaining to the teaching and learning of stress and intonation in native and second languages considers the functional movement, conversational English, the difficulty of learning stress/intonation, stress within words and sentences, difficulties for speakers of tone and syllable-timed languages, and tests of stress and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

MacNeilage, Peter F.; Davis, Barbara L.; Kinney, Ashlynn; Matyear, Christine L. – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence for four major design features of serial organization of speech arising from comparison of babbling and early speech with patterns in ten languages. Maintains that no explanation for the design features is available from Universal Grammar; except for intercyclical consonant repetition development, perceptual-motor learning seems…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Influences, Language Acquisition
Kjeldergaard, Paul M.; And Others – 1969
This report describes in two volumes the proceedings of a conference on the perception of language held at the University of Pittsburgh in January, 1968. The objectives of the conference, to present the particular research interests of the participants and to attempt to find points of concurrence in thinking through discussion of the conference…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Key, Mary Ritchie; And Others – 1971
This paper points out some linguistic and stylistic features of Black English as spoken by children and discusses the occurrence of particular language patterns. Examples of distinct intonation patterns, paralinguistic effects, language rhythm, and other phonological features are all considered. A statistical survey of particular age-group usage…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language)
Leon, Pierre R., Ed.; And Others – 1970
The ten papers in this collection are based on presentations given during a colloquium held November 14-15, 1969, at the University of Toronto. The papers, written in either English or French, cover various topics related to prosodic feature analysis in general; several concern the analysis of specific languages. General topics include discussions…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception
Jannedy, Stefanie, Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Reports of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics include: "Interaction with Autonomy: Defining Multiple Output Models in Psycholinguistic Theories" (Julie E. Boland, Anne Cutler); "Vocal Tract Evolution and Vowel Production" (K. Bretonnel Cohen); "Final Lowering in Kipare" (Rebecca Herman); "Gestural…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Bantu Languages, Chinese