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Download full textSlobin, Dan I. – 1965
A contribution to the debate on innate factors in children's language acquisition is rendered by cross-linguistic comparisons of children's languages. Russian, for example, is sufficiently different from English to serve as a useful contrast. Early syntactic development is very much the same in both languages. A small class of "pivot words" and a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Slobin, Dan I. – 1970
This paper represents a preliminary attempt to determine universals of grammatical development in children. On the basis of language acquisition data, a limited number of findings are presented in the form of suggested developmental universals. These universals are grouped according to the psychological variables which may determine them, in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar, Information Storage
Slobin, Dan I. – Psychology Today, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Influences, Grammar, Intonation
Peer reviewedJohnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationSlobin, Dan I. – 1975
Observation of child language development is just one way to study how language changes over time. Developmental psycholinguistics shares much common ground with historical linguistics and with studies of languages in contact and the evolution of pidgins and creoles. By studying the way language changes, this paper focuses on clarifying the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles
Ammon, Mary Sue; Slobin, Dan I. – 1978
Children aged 2;0 to 4;4, including native speakers of English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish, were asked to demonstrate causative statements by acting them out with toy animals and dolls. The major analysis focused on the total number of correct acting-out responses and the way this score related to several variables. Performance improved…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Italian
PDF pending restorationJohnson, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – 1977
A study was conducted in 1972-73 in Berkeley, Rome, Dubrovnik, and Istanbul, in order to examine the differences and similarities in the sequence of the development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. The subjects consisted of 48 two-, three-, and four-year-olds in each field site. Groups of three girls and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Slobin, Dan I. – 1968
The purpose of this paper is to review recent Soviet research on the child's development of Russian grammar, with detailed information on valuable methods for investigating this process. Cross-linguistic comparisons are made where applicable in view of their relevance for the study of universal aspects of language acquisition and linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bulgarian, Caucasian Languages, Child Language
