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Wu, Rosalind – 1987
A study examined young children's use of the Mandarin "jiu" in its adverbial form in conditional sentences. The language corpus included: (1) spontaneous speech samples of 66 children aged 4, 5, 6, and 7 years in 20 Taiwan locations and (2) story repetitions by 461 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds in 22 locations. The data indicate that children…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Dialects, Discourse Analysis
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
