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Peer reviewedWatson, Rita – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examined whether the use of superordinate terms in 206 children's definitions is predictable by relevance theory. Children (ages 5-10) gave definitions for 16 basic-level words and 4 superordinate words from natural kind and artifact semantic domains. Superordinate terms were used more frequently when they supported more inferences. Findings…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Definitions, Inferences
Kossan, Nancy E. – 1981
Developmental differences in preschool children's abilities to communicate about basic and subordinate level semantic contrasts were examined in a referential communication situation. Twenty-four three, four, and five-year-old children communicated with children of the same age and adults about pictures' referents. Speakers talked about one…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Clark, Eve V. – 2003
This book examines children's acquisition of a first language, the stages they go through, and how they use language as they learn. There are 16 chapters in 4 parts. After chapter 1, "Acquiring Languages: Issues and Questions," Part 1, "Getting Started," offers (2) "In Conversation with Children," (3) "Starting…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development, Child Language
Biere, Bernd-Ulrich; Heringer, Hans-Jurgen – Linguistik und Didaktik, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1972
The language a child learns from and attends to is the speech of significant persons in his world, addressed to each other and to him. As the child gradually participates in this social interaction he learns communicative competence, i.e., the nonconscious, tacit knowledge that underlies speech behavior--knowledge of both the language and the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Child Language, Communication Skills
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 32 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the development of young children's metalinguistic understanding of "letter,""word," and "sentence"; (2) modifications in speech to elderly conversationalists;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills
Papers on Language and Context. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 46.
Cook-Gumperz, Jenny; Gumperz, John J. – 1976
This issue includes four papers: (1) "Context in Children's Speech," by Jenny Cook-Gumperz and John J. Gumperz, demonstrates how context is used as a framing device for semantic interpretation of messages. It is suggested that context is not simply background information but part of the total message, entering into the information communicated,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Newport, Elissa L.; Ashbrook, Elizabeth F. – 1977
This report is a cross-linguistic study that compares the sequence of emergence of semantic relations in English with the sequence of emergence of these relations in the acquisition of American Sign Language. American Sign Language (ASL) differs from English in modality (it is a visual-gesture language rather than an auditory-vocal one) and in the…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Child Language, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
