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Sensitivity to Visual Prosodic Cues in Signers and Nonsigners
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Brentari, Diane; Gonzalez, Carolina; Seidl, Amanda; Wilbur, Ronnie – Language and Speech, 2011
Three studies are presented in this paper that address how nonsigners perceive the visual prosodic cues in a sign language. In Study 1, adult American nonsigners and users of American Sign Language (ASL) were compared on their sensitivity to the visual cues in ASL Intonational Phrases. In Study 2, hearing, nonsigning American infants were tested…
Descriptors: Cues, Deafness, Language Enrichment, American Sign Language
On the Acquisition of Present Perfect "Have" in Normal Children
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Nussbaum, N. Jo; Naremore, Rita C. – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Usage
On the Child's Acquisition of Semantic Structure Underlying the Word Field of Prepositions
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Grimm, Hannelore – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
Sentence Processing as a Function of Syntax, Short Term Memory Capacity, the Meaningfulness of the Stimulus and Age
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Gamlin, Peter J. – Language and Speech, 1971
Examines the effects of short term memory (STM) capacity, meaningfulness of stimuli, and age upon listeners' structuring of sentences. Results show that the interaction between STM capacity and meaningfulness (1) approached significance when data were collapsed over both age levels, and (2) was significant for one age level. Tables and references.…
Descriptors: Age, Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Linguistic Competence
A Comparison of Syntactic Structures in the Speech of Three- and Four-Year-Old Children.
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Brannon, John B., Jr. – Language and Speech, 1968
A group of three-year-old children was compared to one of four-year-old children in the usage of 26 syntactic transformations on the basis of 60 utterances per child. The older group used significantly more sentence transformations per child and significantly fewer simple active declarative sentences than the younger. Among the older group 10 out…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Usage, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance