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Ailís Cournane; Mina Hirzel; Valentine Hacquard – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Modals (e.g., "can," "must") vary along two dimensions of meaning: "force" (i.e., possibility or necessity), and "flavor" (i.e., possibilities relative to knowledge [epistemic], goals [teleological], or rules [deontic] …). Comprehension studies show that children struggle with both force and flavor…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Definitions
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Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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Birch, Susan A. J.; Bloom, Paul – Child Development, 2002
Two experiments examined young children's use of the familiarity principle when learning language. Found that even 2-year-olds successfully identified the referent of a proper name as the individual with whom the speaker was familiar. However, only 5-year-olds reliably succeeded at determining the individual with whom the speaker was familiar…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Knowledge Level, Language Acquisition
Poggi, Claudine – 1982
The use of imitation as a language learning strategy was explored in a case study of a child in a Mandarin-speaking family. Recordings were made over the course of 3 months, from the ages of 2 years 10 months to 3 years 1 month. It is argued that restrictive criteria regarding identity of form and temporal proximity of utterances have severely…
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Smith, Grace – Young Children, 1974
A nursery school teacher shares some of her collection of spontaneous language phrases of preschoolers, and shows how they reflect the characteristics of what Piaget calls the natural reasoning processes of young children. (CS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Language Acquisition
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Stubbs, Michael – Linguistics and Education, 1995
In a response to Halliday (1993), Gee (1994) discussed the analogies between learning a language and learning in general. The article presents two of his proposals and discusses an empirical method for studying them. The article focuses on identifying the units acquired during language learning and the relevance of the concept of an innate…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Tomasello, Michael; Kruger, Ann Cale – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Examines verb learning in children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts. Results are discussed in terms of the different learning processes involved in acquiring nouns and verbs and in terms of a social-pragmatic view of language acquisition. (34 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Peters, Ann M. – Language, 1977
Reports on a child who evidently used a gestalt strategy (proceeding from the whole to the parts) in learning his first language. Further evidence for a gestalt strategy exists in the literature, albeit implicitly, and any theory of language or language acquisition should be able to account for it. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
Hyams, Nina – 1984
It is argued that the general consensus of researchers of child language that the grammatical system underlying the child's earliest multiword utterances is semantically-based, fails to provide an adequate description of even the earliest multiword utterances, and that the most sparing account of the acquisition data must include reference to…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
Au, Terry Kit-Fong – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Two studies were performed to determine the process used by young children to figure out the meaning of a new word. It was hypothesized that the children would use one of two strategies: (1) ignore the word and wait for more information, or learn only what is unambiguous about it, or (2) make a reasonable but uncertain guess, quickly setting up…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
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Teece, Cathleen – Language and Speech, 1976
Results confirm the value of play activities for language development, and illustrate the nature of linguistic interaction among groups of five-year-olds. (RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Interaction, Language Acquisition
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Andrich, Gail Rex; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Reports two studies which investigated the acquisition of color terms by preschool children. The first was designed to clarify the role of certain conceptual factors in the acquisition of color terms. The second explored how input may interact with these conceptual factors and help to guide the acquisition of color words. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Color, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Wilkinson, Krista M.; And Others – Developmental Review, 1996
Notes that psycholinguists have studied "fast mapping," and behavior analysts have studied the phenomenon of"learning by exclusion." Reviews the research protocols, questions, and outcomes of these two research lines to show their clear similarities, to support the argument that both disciplines are studying a single…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Bailey, Dora L.; Vacca, Richard T. – Reading Horizons, 1986
Relates a preschool child's experiences with product labels to show how teachers can use such language stories to promote early reading and writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Theories, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Kernan, Keith T. – 1969
The purpose of this study was to gather information on the acquisition of non-Indo-European languages. The field work was conducted in the village of Faleasao on the island of Ta'u in the Manu'a group of American Samoa from June, 1968 to June, 1969. The data collected consists primarily of tape recordings of naturally occurring and elicited speech…
Descriptors: Child Language, Doctoral Dissertations, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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