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Fujiki, Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
A study examined the manner in which 10 specifically language-impaired children and their linguistically normal chronological age-matched peers repaired overlapping speech. Conversational samples from each student were elicited by an adult examiner. (26 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Handicaps, Language Patterns
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Bebko, James M. – Sign Language Studies, 1990
Review of literature on indicators of the effectiveness of language intervention programs for autistic children showed that mitigation in echolalia was a critical characteristic, as it implied that the prerequisites for language were accessible through speech. Children whose speech ranged from mutism to unmitigated echolalia had a more negative…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Expressive Language
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Leonard, Laurence B.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Analysis of the spontaneous speech of English- and Italian-speaking children with specific language impairment indicated that word-final consonants adversely influenced Italian subjects' tendency to use articles. There was no evidence of syntactic differences between the language groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Consonants
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Camarata, Stephen M.; Erwin, Lisa – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
A case study is presented in which a language impaired three-year-old used suprasegmental features to distinguish singular and plural forms in spontaneous speech. Acoustic analyses revealed that the suprasegmentals included various duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity parameters. Phonological, morphological, and psycholinguistic factors…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Case Studies, Child Language, Language Handicaps
Hooshyar, Nahid T. – 1985
Maternal language directed to 21 nonhandicapped, 21 Down syndrome, and 19 language impaired preschool children was examined. The three groups (all Caucasian and middle-class) were matched in mean length of utterance (MLU) and in developmental skills as measured on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale. Mother-child language interaction was…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Communication Skills, Downs Syndrome
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Jimenez, Beatrice C. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Spanish-speaking children of Mexican descent living in California were tested on the acquisition of 18 Spanish consonants. The 120 subjects (aged 3 to 5:7 years) were equally divided into eight age groups, and the median ages (50%) and upper age limits (90%) of customary production of each consonant were determined. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Child Development, Child Language
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with the following topics: sex appropriate and sex inappropriate language; lexical retrieval and perceptual errors; naming deficits in anomia and aphasia; developmental discourse; pragmatic information and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Youth, Child Language