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Download full textEbeling, Karen S.; Gelman, Susan A. – 1990
Two studies investigated how flexible children are when asked to switch from one semantic interpretation to another. Three distinctly different standards for the adjectives "big" and "little" were examined: normative, perceptual, and functional. The first study looked at whether some standards are harder than others to represent and whether…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedJacobs, Bob – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1988
Examines language as a multimodal sensory enhancement system, integrating recent neuroanatomical and neurophysiological findings on the ontogenesis of neuronal structures with the generative concept of Universal Grammar for determination of fundamental differences between primary and secondary language acquisition. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
Simpson, Greg – 1978
A study was conducted to test whether three, four, and five-year-old children would be better able to use either static or dynamic properties for grouping objects, and whether performance under these conditions would be better than when no property was given. One of the two study tasks, the free sort, also used by Rosch et al. (1976), asked…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Whincop, Chris – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper identifies a feature of human brain neural nets that may be described as the principle of ease of processing (PEP), and that, it is argued, is the primary force guiding a learner towards a target grammar. It is suggested that the same principle lies at the heart of Optimality Theory, which characterizes the course of language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Grammar
Macken, Marlys A. – 1979
Smith's 1973 model of articulatory phonological development between the ages of two and four is re-examined in an attempt to develop a model that includes the possibility of both perceptual and articulatory learning. Smith's data, regarding phonological transformations of words after rules established by his infant son's pronunciation of the words…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition
Dromi, Esther – 1978
The use of locative prepositions in the spontaneous speech of 30 Hebrew speaking children two to three years old was studied. The rank order of locative prepositions is determined according to the correct use in obligatory contexts, and tentative conclusions are drawn concerning the order of acquisition of these terms in Hebrew. An attempt is made…
Descriptors: Child Language, Function Words, Grammar, Hebrew
