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Sentential Devices for Conveying Giveness and Newsness: A Cross-Cultural Developmental Study.
MacWhinney, Brian; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1978
Analyzes ellipsis, pronominalization, emphatic stress, the indefinite article, the definite article, and initialization as used by child and adult speakers of English, Hungarian, and Italian. Conclusions: marked differences between the languages; early learning of the functions of the devices; some changes with age. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, English
A New On-Line Resource for Psycholinguistic Studies
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Szekely, Anna; Jacobsen, Thomas; D'Amico, Simona; Devescovi, Antonella; Andonoa, Elena; Herron, Daniel; Lu, Ching Ching; Pechmann, Thomas; Pleh, Csaba; Wicha, Nicole; Federmeier, Kara; Gerdjikova, Irina; Gutierrez, Gabriel; Hung, Daisy, Hsu, Jeanne; Iyer, Gowri; Kohnert, Kathryn; Mehotcheva, Teodora; Orozco-Figueroa, Araceli; Tzeng, Angela; Tzeng, Ovid; Arevalo, Analia; Vargha, Andras; Butler, Andrew C.; Buffington, Robert; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Picture naming is a widely used technique in psycholinguistic studies. Here, we describe new on-line resources that our project has compiled and made available to researchers on the world wide web at http://crl.ucsd.edu/~aszekely/ipnp/. The website provides access to a wide range of picture stimuli and related norms in seven languages. Picture…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Familiarity, Norms, Language Acquisition
Morphological Development in Italian: Connotation and Denotation.
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Bates, Elizabeth; Rankin, Jane – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on research on the acquisition of adjectives vs inflectional endings in Italian children. Patterns resulting from a longitudinal study involving two children and an experiment involving 84 children are compared to patterns of adults participating in the latter experiment. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Child Language, Grammar
Production of Complex Syntax in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.
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Bates, Elizabeth; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
This study compared the production of complex syntax by 16 older adults diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease and 25 age-matched control subjects. It found that although individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease did not produce frank lexical or grammatical errors, they did find it difficult to access the "best fit" between meaning and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease, Comparative Analysis, Diction
On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition, Aphasia and Real-Time Processing.
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Bates, Elizabeth; Goodman, Judith C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Notes that in linguistic theory, phenomena previously handled by a separate grammatical component have been moved into the lexicon and that in some theories, the contrast between grammar and the lexicon has vanished. Concludes that the case for a modular distinction between grammar and the lexicon has been overstated and that the evidence to date…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Change Agents, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
The Emergence of Symbols in Language and Action: Similarities and Differences. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 17.
Bates, Elizabeth; And Others – 1979
A study is reported relevant to the relationship between first words learned by children and gestural symbolization under a variety of contextual conditions. It is part of a larger longitudinal study of 32 children at 10, 13, 20, and 27 months of age. The children were seen in three standardized situations for eliciting gestural and vocal symbols:…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Body Language, Child Language, Cognitive Development
A Cross-Cultural Study of Child Discourse.
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MacWhinney, Brian; Bates, Elizabeth – 1976
Children and adults speaking English, Hungarian, and Italian were asked to describe sets of pictures which manipulated the pragmatic category of givenness. The working hypothesis was that there exist rule-governed relations between the perception of certain categorical aspects of the communicative situation and the use of certain conventional…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies