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Anglin, Jeremy M. – Child Development, 1978
Argues that inferring the intension (meaning) of children's words solely from the words' extension (referential scope) is problematic and describes two studies of the intension of children's words which involve a different approach. (JMB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Research Methodology
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Foreit, Karen G.; Donaldson, Patricia L. – Child Development, 1971
Authors suggest a reanalysis of the data and a replication of the experiment described by J. S. Baratz in a previous issue of Child Development (EJ 008 114). (MB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Imitation
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Weeks, Thelma E. – Child Development, 1971
Results suggest that children acquire speech registers concurrently with language and that the progression of acquisition varies more for registers than for grammatical forms. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Natalicio, Diana S.; Natalicio, Luiz F. S. – Child Development, 1971
Results indicate that the pattern of acquisition of noun plurals in English is comparable for both children having English as their first language and those acquiring English as a second language. (Authors)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Learning Levels