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Optional Elements and Variant Structures in the Productions of "Bei2" "to Give" Dative Constructions in Cantonese-Speaking Adults and Three-Year-Old Children
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Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Chow, Dorcas C.-C.; McBride-Cheng, Catherine; Stokes, Stephanie F. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
To express object transfer, Cantonese-speakers use a "ditransitive" ([V-R-T] or [V-T-R] where V = Verb, T = Theme, R = Recipient), or a more complex prepositional/serial-verb (P/SV) construction. Clausal elements in Cantonese datives can be optional (resulting in "full" versus "non-full" forms) or appear in variant…
Descriptors: Verbs, Adults, Toddlers, Sino Tibetan Languages
Induction and the Acquisition of English Auxiliaries: The Effects of Differentially Enriched Input.
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Shatz, Marilyn; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
A longitudinal study examined two-year-olds' acquisition of the English auxiliary system after a six-week exposure to additional auxiliary input in varying sentence contexts. Results indicated that subjects did not significantly differ from a baseline group that did not receive additional input. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Language Enrichment, Language Patterns
Acquisition of Complementation.
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Bloom, Lois; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Reports a study of two- and three-year-olds' acquisition of complex sentences with perception and epistemic verbs that took a second verb in their complements. Complement types, complementizer connectives, and the discourse contexts in which complementation occurred were specific to individual matrix verbs. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Onnanohito wa duressu desu. That's Why the Lady Is a Dress: Developmental Stages in Japanese Second Language Acquisition. Australian Studies in Language Acquisition No. 6.
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Huter, Kirsten Ina – 1997
This study investigated the process of acquisition of syntax in Japanese as a second language (JSL) in five university students over a period of 3 years. The report begins with an overview of Japanese syntax and an explanatory model of second language learning based on human information processing. Four phases of JSL learning with 16 sub-stages…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Higher Education
Black Student Writers, Storks, and Familiar Places: What Can We Learn from the National Assessment of Educational Progress?
Smitherman, Geneva; Wright, Sandra – 1984
Using data consisting of descriptive and expressive-narrative essays written in 1969 and 1979 by black 17-year-old students in the stratified probability sample from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a study investigated which language patterns differentiated the NAEP essays written by black students in 1969 from those…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies
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
Form and Function in the Development of Sentence Negation. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 17.
De Villiers, Peter A.; De Villiers, Jill G. – 1979
This investigation studied the development of the form and function of negative sentences, and how it relates to the input on negation that children receive from their parents. The data came from three children: two from a previous study (Bellugi) and one the son of the investigators. A detailed analysis was carried out of the syntactic form and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Function Words, Language Acquisition