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Hall, D. Geoffrey – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Fourteen mothers and their children participated in a storybook reading session in which the mothers taught their children both a basic-level count noun and a situation-restricted count noun for a series of object drawings. Analysis of mothers' spontaneous teaching strategies revealed that they typically taught a basic-level count noun before a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Mothers
Lemish, Dafna; Rice, Mabel L. – 1984
This study provides longitudinal observations of young children's behaviors while viewing television in their own homes, over a time when the children were actively involved in the process of language acquisition. A total of 16 children were observed for a period ranging from 6 to 8 months. At the beginning, their ages ranged from 6 and 1/2 to 29…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition