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Hass, Wilbur A. – 1970
The author raises the question of what one can say about the structure of a person's language from a sample of his speech production and urges the calculating of information theory parameters for grammatical constructions. What has to be done is to decide what construction to focus on and what types to recognize as exemplifying that construction.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Information Theory, Language Acquisition, Nouns
Hatch, Evelyn; And Others – 1969
The present study explores accuracy and speed of responses by the five-year-old child to expanded and conjoined sentences. The following factors were considered: (a) number of transformations, (b) types of transformations, (c) auxiliary-type sentence expansion and (d) type of query (those designed to elicit responses which should reflect…
Descriptors: Child Language, Listening Comprehension, Memory, Psycholinguistics
Hatch, Evelyn; And Others – 1969
The present study explores accuracy and speed of responses by the five-year-old child to expanded and conjoined sentences. The following factors were considered: (a) number of transformations, (b) types of transformations, (c) auxiliary-type sentence expansion and (d) type of query (those designed to elicit responses which should reflect…
Descriptors: Child Language, Listening Comprehension, Memory, Psycholinguistics
Locke, John L. – 1970
This paper takes issue with the position that children's phoneme acquisition schedule is dictated primarily by auditory perceptual factors and suggests the alternative position that ease of production accounts for age of acquisition. It is felt that perceptual theory cannot adequately explain phonological development, e.g. three-year-olds produce…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language
Ehri, Linnea C. – 1971
This investigation was intended to study the effects of some linguistic variables on child and adult memories for sentences when recall was prompted by nouns embedded in the sentences. Its purpose was to examine for developmental differences in sentence processing systems expected by psycholinguistic theory and research. A group of 64 subjects,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, Child Language, Deep Structure
Tarone, Elaine – 1974
Participants in a seminar series in second language acquisition held at Harvard University discussed three papers by Dulay and Burt ("Goofing: An Indicator of Children's Second Language Learning Strategies,""Should We Teach Children Syntax?", "Natural Sequences in Child Second Language Acquisition"), and developed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
Danks, Joseph H.; Lewis, Charles – 1970
The comprehension of deviant sentences is dependent on several linguistic variables. Grammaticalness (G), meaningfulness (M), and familiarity (F) are three variables which are potentially such. In order to study the effect of violating these variables upon Ss' responses to deviant sentences, 85 deviant and 15 correct sentences were assigned to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, English, Factor Analysis
Lee, Laura L. – 1970
The objectives of the research reported here were (1) to develop and test the Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) technique, a method for quantifying the increasing use of syntactic and morphological structures in the spontaneous speech of children between the ages of three and seven, (2) to establish age norms for syntactic and morphological…
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Methods, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Gleitman, Lila R.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Rebuts an article that claimed to overthrow the authors' 1969 findings. It is demonstrated that the original study concerned syntactic organization and that interpretation of it as bearing on comprehension is largely unjustified. Comments on their prior work in light of new developments in child language are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Suppes, P.; And Others – 1974
This is the second report concerned with the analysis of a young child's spoken French. It focuses on the study of the entire corpus of 33 hour sessions occurring approximately once a week and ranging from the time the subject was 25 months old to 38 months old. Chapter 1 is devoted to introductory remarks. Chapter 2 contains a dictionary of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Psychology, French, Generative Grammar
Wells, Gordon – 1973
"How does a child come to be able to relate his own experience to the formal means of communicating about that experience in the language to which he is exposed?" The author maintains that the innate predispositions that underlie the development of the cognitive ability to organize and structure experience also underlie the acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development