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Crib Talk and Mother-Child Interaction: A Comparison of Form and Function. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 17.
Black, Ruth W. – 1979
The crib talk reported here of a 2;2-2;4-year-old boy replicates the phenomenon of crib talk reported in previous studies by other investigators. This study adds a corpus of mother-child interaction (MCI) and tests one aspect of the hypothesis that crib talk may enhance production of linguistic forms at a later date. Transcripts of monologues were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Negative Questions in Japanese-Speaking, English-Speaking, and Japanese-English Bilingual Children. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 12.
Akiyama, Michihiko – 1976
A study was conducted to compare the relative performance on yes-no questions of bilingual and monolingual children and to discuss the relationship of semantic development and linguistic development, both in the bilinguals and monolinguals. Eighteen English monolingual, eighteen Japanese monolingual, and eighteen Japanese-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Comprehension
Underlying Structure in Simple and Complex Phrases of a Communication System Developed Without a Language Model. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 17.
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan – 1979
The question is addressed whether a child would develop a communication system if a conventional linguistic model is absent. Six congenitally deaf children, who were not exposed to Sign Language, were observed and videotaped at play in their homes at intervals of one to three months. The children ranged in age from 1 year, 5 months to 4 years, 1…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Deep Structure
A Functional Analysis of Defective and Non-Defective Requests in the Speech of Mothers to Children. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 11.
Tollefson, James W. – 1976
Investigators agree that mothers employ a variety of request forms and that children seem to be able to respond to these forms with a remarkable degree of accuracy. It is suggested that the speech of mothers to their children is filled with requests which are really not requests at all. It is shown that many of what appear to be adult requests to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Sensorimotor Development and Descriptions of Child Phonology: A Preliminary View of Phonological Analysis for Stage I Speech. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13.
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Schwartz, Richard G.; Folger, M. Karen – 1977
This study proposes that children's phonological behavior at Stage VI of sensorimotor development may show markedly decreased variability compared to children at Stage V. According to Piaget, sensorimotor development during Stage VI is distinguished from preceding stages by the onset of representational ability and ability to form mental…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Developmental Reorganization of Phonology: A Hierarchy of Basic Units of Acquisition. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 14.
Macken, Marlys A. – 1977
The acquisition of the consonant system by a child acquiring Mexican-Spanish as her native language is described. During the earliest stages (from 1;7 to 2;1 years of age), the data showed several phenomena that could best be accounted for by assuming a central role for the word as the basic unit being acquired. The evidence for the centrality of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Consonants, Language Acquisition