Describes the different stages through which children learn to speak, how they break the language down into its simplest parts, and then develop the rules they need to put the parts together. (GA)

Intonation refers to the rise and fall of the pitch contour within a given tone group as distinguished from paralinguistic vocal features which refer to aspects like placement of contour in the pitch range of an individual, pitch span, loudness/softness, and features of voice quality. Intonation and paralinguistic vocal features perform at least…

THE RESEARCH REPORTED HERE CONCERNED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WHORF HYPOTHESIS ABOUT LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. EXPERIMENTS WERE CARRIED OUT INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SOME LINGUISTIC AND REFERENT DIMENSION VARIABLES ON THE LEARNING OF MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS. A MINIATURE LINGUISTIC SYSTEM (MLS) IS A…

This volume contains information derived from college student ratings of a large number and variety of individual words (along with some nonwords) for seven basic semantic characteristics. The primary data are rating values for over 2800 words for seven dimensions of special significance for current research on verbal behavior and related topics.…

One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…