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Motherese in the Wichi Language (El maternés en la lengua wichí)
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Taverna, Andrea S. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
This paper provides the first evidence of maternal speech--motherese--in Wichi, an indigenous language with a complex morphology spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. The corpus consists of 22 hours of video recordings from the daily life of three children, starting from their one-morpheme utterance period (MLU = 1) to the onset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Language Usage
Prosodic Disambiguation of Noun/Verb Homophones in Child-Directed Speech
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Conwell, Erin – Journal of Child Language, 2017
One strategy that children might use to sort words into grammatical categories such as noun and verb is distributional bootstrapping, in which local co-occurrence information is used to distinguish between categories. Words that can be used in more than one grammatical category could be problematic for this approach. Using naturalistic corpus…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Suprasegmentals, Grammar
Evaluation, Use, and Refinement of Knowledge Representations through Acquisition Modeling
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
Generative approaches to language have long recognized the natural link between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition. The basic idea is that the knowledge representations provided by Universal Grammar enable children to acquire language as reliably as they do because these representations highlight the…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
The Acquisition of Question and Request Forms in a Japanese Child.
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Yoshida, Kensaku – 1977
Although intonation has been said to be one of the first meaningful units of language that a child acquires, it is difficult to say just what this really means. How does the child learn to distinguish the various grammatical meanings that an intonation can have? It was hypothesized that the child first acquires question and request forms on the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Intonation, Japanese
Mother and Father Speech: Distribution of Parental Speech Features in English and Spanish. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 12.
Blount, Ben G.; Padgug, Elise J. – 1976
Features of parental speech to young children was studied in four English-speaking and four Spanish-speaking families. Children ranged in age from 9 to 12 months for the English speakers and from 8 to 22 months for the Spanish speakers. Examination of the utterances led to the identification of 34 prosodic, paralinguistic, and interactional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Differences, English, Fathers
The Paralinguistic Encoding Capability of Children. Report from the Project on Studies of Instructional Programming for the Individual Student. Technical Report No. 441.
Plazewski, Joseph G.; Allen, Vernon L. – 1977
A study was conducted of the capacity of sixth-grade children to communicate accurately paralinguistic affect. A dependent measure indicating the accuracy of paralinguistic communication of affect was obtained by comparing the level of affect which children intended to encode with ratings of vocal inflections from adult judges. Four independent…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Language, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)