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Marcos, Haydee – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Investigation of the communicative functions of pitch direction and range in one-year-olds (N=2) indicated that use of pitch among infants may be related to a period where communicative intentions are clearly defined, but language is not yet available. A higher pitch was observed among infants who made repeated requests for objects as opposed to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Infants, Intonation
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Ginsburg, G. P.; Kilbourne, Brock K. – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Microanalyses of unstructured videotaped interactions of three mother-infant dyads revealed dramatic shifts in dyadic vocalization patterns from primarily overlapping to primarily alternating. These results suggest that the emergent patterns reflect increased potential for coordination within the dyad, which may be capitalized on by mother and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interaction, Language Patterns
McCune, Lorraine; Vihman, Marilyn May – 1987
A study examined the consistency of consonant use in the infant's transition period from babbling to early words. Phonetic data were collected from the speech of 10 infants aged 9 to 15 months. Analysis of consonant distribution patterns indicate striking segmental preferences in all 10 children, with some segments more prominent for the sample as…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Consonants, Individual Differences
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Preece, Alison – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Examination of the productive narrative competence of three five-year-olds revealed that the children routinely and regularly produced a striking variety of 14 narrative forms. Seventy percent of the narratives took anecdotal form, and original fantasy narratives occurred only rarely. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Discourse Analysis, Kindergarten Children
Enkvist, Nils Erik – 1982
Impromptu speech can be defined in different ways: in terms of situational context, linguistic characteristics, and real-time processing. These approaches are not contradictory. There are certain situations that call for rapid processing of spoken discourse, and the needs of that processing are reflected in the structure of the text. The degree of…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research
Orestrom, Bengt – 1982
A study analyzed four dyadic conversations for evidence of the signals operating in the turn-taking process and facilitating the smooth exchange of turns. It found over 20 syntactic, prosodic, and semantic features occurring frequently with turn-taking. The five most significant factors correlating with turn-taking were a prosodically completed…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
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Evans, Mary Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Observation of reticent (N=7) and normal talkative (N=7) kindergarten students with their teachers during classroom "sharing time" indicated that reticent children engaged in less complex speech than their peers, speaking more often about objects in the "here and now," speaking about one topic at a turn, and speaking in shorter…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Discourse Analysis, Interaction, Kindergarten
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Garner, Thurmon – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1985
Explores the discourse and speech acts used by Black children between the ages of 5 and 10 in one Midwestern community. Examines the rhetorical devices of teasing, name-calling, riddles, and joke-stories and hypothesizes as to the functional significance of each in the cultural environment. (SA)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Youth, Communication Research, Cultural Traits
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Hartford, Beverly S. – Language Learning, 1990
Examines status in institutional discourse and identifies congruence as a factor in the success of native and nonnative speakers. Nonnative speakers suffered from a lack of context-specific pragmatic competence involving the use of status preserving strategies and appropriate content for noncongruent speech acts. (21 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis
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Goldman, Laurence Richard – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Considers the culturally patterned set of analogic renamings found in Huli baby talk, nursery rhymes, and children's verbal games. An analysis of socialization activities shows a marked concern with body motifs and appellations and inter-adult behavior involving talk about the body, and showing that such language sensitizes children to cultural…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
LoCastro, Virginia – 1986
A contrastive study of Japanese and American English sought to explore how speakers agree and disagree in the two languages. Japanese-speaking college students and American English-speaking teachers of English as a foreign language were informally questioned about food preferences, with their comments surreptitiously recorded for analysis. Results…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
Roulet, Eddy – 1982
Early speech-act theorists studied isolated speech acts, often in terms of single sentences invented by the investigator, an approach that had obvious limitations. It is now known that speech acts ought to be investigated by looking at utterances in their full interactional context. A hierarchical model of the structure of conversation that is…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Interaction
Kim, Julie – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This study examined the ways in which adult, Korean, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners performed the "request" speech act, with particular attention to deviations caused by negative transfer. An oral discourse completion test with six request situations was given to three groups of learners; situations varied in terms of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
Enkvist, Nils Erik, Ed. – 1982
The titles of papers in this document on impromptu or spontaneous speech are as follows: "Impromptu Speech, Structure, and Process"; "Non-Verbal Aspects of Impromptu Speech"; "Echanges, interventions et actes de langage dans la structure de la conversation" ("Exchanges, Interventions, and Speech Acts in the…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Lofstrom, Jonas – 1982
Sociolinguistic Studies in a Data Base of Spoken Swedish (Sprakdata) is a project to describe the language from a semantic-communicative point of view. The purposes are to (1) investigate the possibility of grouping informants based on results of a semantic-communicative analysis of recorded spoken language and (2) examine possible…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Correlation