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Dore, John; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Two transitional phases in the child's early language development are described; the first occurs between prelinguistic vocalization and one-word speech and the second between one-word and patterned speech. Cognitive, linguistic and affective inputs to the acquisition of reference and syntax are discussed in the light of the transitional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Stolz, Walter S.; Tiffany, Janice – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1972
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
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Cromer, Richard – Urban Review, 1975
In one experiment, children from 5 to 10 years of age played with puppets and responded to questions concerning the acquisition of one particular linguistic structure by children; in another series of experiments, both children and adults responded to questions regarding nonsense words in differentiating contexts--the focus of the discussion…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Branigan, George – 1976
Data on the development of fundamental frequency patterns and the emergence of semantic relations during the "one word period" in child language development are reported in this study. The research focuses on the changes that occur as children progress from producing single words to sequences of single words and finally to producing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Intonation, Language Acquisition
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Pinker, Stephen – Science, 1991
Focuses on a single rule of grammar to produce evidence of a memory system for language acquisition and processing that is modular; independent of real-world meaning; unaffected by frequency and similarity; sensitive to formal distinctions; more sophisticated than the explicitly-taught rules it subsumes; developed independently of ambient input;…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Diachronic Linguistics, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition
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Smyth, Ron – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines cognitive development in 141 children (ages 5 to 8) and the use of pragmatic cues for anaphora resolution performed in verbal and puppet tasks with biased and neutral sentences. Violations of pragmatic constraint decreased with age and task, consistent with the perspective-shift model. Parallel function effects in neutral sentences were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages)
Murphy, Mary Theresa – 1979
Anaphora, a linguistic structure that refers to previously mentioned or implied text, has been implicated as a possible cause of reading comprehension difficulty among children. Reading research has focused on the surface structures of anaphora (pronouns and noun demonstratives, for example) and has viewed comprehension of anaphora as a language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Kelly, Melissa F.; Miller, Kevin F.; Fang, Ge; Feng, Gary – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1999
Explored the effects of differences between English-language and Chinese numerical systems for naming months and days on calendar calculations. Chinese and U.S. 8- and 10-year olds and undergraduates were asked to name a date coming before or after another given date. Found that Chinese speakers used calculations; English speakers recited names.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, College Students, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Gentner, Dedre – 1977
The work described in this paper was undertaken to study children's ability to preserve semantic relations during analogical mappings. Two experiments are described based on the understanding that metaphors and analogies are mappings from one semantic region (the domain of origin) to another (the range of application), which convey the idea that…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Horton, Marjorie S.; Markman, Ellen M. – 1978
Forty-eight nursery school and kindergarten children participated in a study of concept learning. The study focused on children's use of intensional and extensional information in the acquisition of basic and superordinate categories. The intension of a concept is its definition or set of defining attributes; its extension is the set of all…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Concept Formation
Clancy, Patricia M. – 1979
A study is presented that considers the narrator's knowledge of conventional schemata for stories and the cognitive factors which seem to be affecting the selection and organization of material for narration. Children ranging in age from 3 years 10 months to 7 years 4 months were asked to watch a video tape cartoon and recount the story to a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Connected Discourse
Foorman, Barbara R.; And Others – 1980
One hundred and twenty kindergarten and second grade children from three different language environments were given a perceptual matching test and a verbal communication test to examine the relationship between language and cognitive performance. The object of the study was to focus on the cognitive processing demands imposed by the linguistic…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Children, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies
Novillis, Carol F. – 1979
Presented is a review of linguistic research on children's acquisition of more/less, same/different, big/little, long/short, and similar relational and dimensional terms. The review illustrates that children's meanings for words differ from adult meanings. The nature and findings of several research projects are discussed and it is concluded that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Van Hekken, Suus M. J.; Roelofsen, Wim – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Examines the changes that occur from ages 5 to 11 in question/answer sequences of Dutch children. Function, content, form of questions, and listener response are analyzed. (EKN)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
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Rodriguez, Oralia – 1976
Up to the present, no studies have been done in the area of child language in Mexico. The Center of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the Colegio de Mexico carried out an empirical investigation of the language of six- to seven-year-old Mexican children. This paper presents, in preliminary form, some partial results of the investigation,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis
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