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I, Me, My and 'Name': Children's Early Systematizations of Forms, Meanings and Functions in Talk about the Self.

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Budwig, 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

Structural Aspects of Maternal Speech to Infants Reared in Poverty.

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Adams, Judith L.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1980

Patterns of speech from lower socioeconomic status mothers to their infants were analyzed to determine correlations with infant risk of mental retardation. Measures of maternal language included sentence form, amount of speech, and syntactic complexity. The proportion of imperatives was positively correlated with risk status and negatively…

Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Individual Differences, Infants, Intelligence Quotient