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Children's Comprehension of Their Mothers' Question-Directives
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Shatz, Marilyn – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This work investigated the young child's ability to respond appropriately to the intended, as opposed to the literal, meaning of one class of such utterances, requests for action. An action-based response heuristic is proposed to explain the apparent ability of two-year-olds to deal with indirect speech acts. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Baby Signs: How To Talk with Your Baby before Your Baby Can Talk.
Acredolo, Linda; Goodwyn, Susan – 1996
Based on research in infant sign language, this book teaches parents methods of communicating with their infants through the use of simple bodily movements that signify objects, events, and needs. Noting that communication between parent and child can flourish between 9 months and 30 months, when a baby's desire to communicate outstrips the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Body Language, Child Language, Communication Skills
Developmental Psycholinguistics: Theory and Applications. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Washington, D.C., 1975).
Dato, Daniel P., Ed. – 1975
The proceedings of this Georgetown University Round Table on developmental psycholinguistics are divided into four sections: (1) "Children's Language Acquisition: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Theory"; (2) "Children's Language Acquisition and Communicative Disorders"; (3) "Developmental Psycholinguistics and Second…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Fathers, Intellectual Development
First Words: Their Origin in Action. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13.
Dihoff, Roberta E.; Chapman, Robin S. – 1977
Children's early utterances were studied to determine whether there are developmental changes in the content, context, frequency, and form of their speech and the degree to which the changes correspond to changes in Piagetian cognitive stage. Twenty children were studied; six were 10 or 11 months old, and the remaining 14 were distributed evenly…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Form and Function in Mother-Toddler Conversational Turn-Taking, Occasional Paper No. 5.
Donahue, Mavis L. – 1978
Most studies of language acquisition overlook the fact that a child learns language in the context of acquiring the social skill of conversing known as "turn-taking." The few studies of verbal turn-taking in children suggest that prosodic features (suprasegmentals) and turn-taking skills are integrated by the age of two years, nine months, and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Intellectual Development
Maternal Self-Repetition and the Child's Acquisition of Language. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13.
Newport, Elissa L.; Gleitman, Henry – 1977
This article hypothesizes that language repetition of young children (in the sense used by Kobashigawa and Snow) does not help language acquisition. The evidence comes from the results of a prior study in which no indication was found that mothers who repeat themselves a great deal have children who acquire language more quickly. However,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children.
Hart, Betty; Risley, Todd R. – 1995
Noting the scientifically substantiated link between children's early family experience and their later intellectual growth, this book describes a longitudinal study of the circumstances of early language learning and the central role of home and family in the emergence of language and word learning. The vocabularies of 42 children were studied…
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Rearing, Competency Based Education, Early Experience