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Download full textBudwig, Nancy – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
Data drawn from videotapes of children aged 20 to 32 months were analyzed for patterns in the use of various self-reference forms at an age when children rarely refer to others compared to their use at an age when children more regularly refer to others as main participants. First, the distribution of the forms…
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Infants
Hoar, Nancy – 1977
The ability to produce and recognize paraphrases is necessary for a child's linguistic development. The purpose of this paper is to explain how three basic sentence types interact with age in determining the strategy a child uses in producing paraphrases. Three paraphrase strategies considered are lexical substitution, syntactic rearrangement, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Miller, George A.; And Others – 1982
As the final report of a 2-year research project, this document covers work on the development of a model of anaphora and its implications for a theory of writing development. The report outlines results from a series of experiments that specified several functions of pronouns in prose and that tested hypotheses concerning the development of…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
