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Peer reviewedLevy, Yonata; Vainikka, Anne – Language Acquisition, 2000
Examines a mixed pattern of subject omission in Hebrew. Longitudinal data is presented from three children whose first and only language is Hebrew. Findings show very early acquisition of the null subject system. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Hebrew, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedDe Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte; Vihman, Marilyn May – Language, 1991
Examines whether systematic differences exist in babbling and first words of infants from different language backgrounds (English, French, Japanese and Swedish) and asks whether differences result from the phonetic structure of the languages. Statistically significant differences discerned in the babbling phonetic selection indicates that phonetic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, French
Peer reviewedAbrahamsson, Niclas – Language Learning, 1999
This case study investigated whether patterns obtained from elicited speech also hold for conversational data. A longitudinal corpus of spontaneous/natural speech from an adult first-language Spanish learner of second-language Swedish is studied. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedRoug, L.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Analysis of longitudinal data on the phonetic development of Swedish infants (N=4) from 1 through 17 months of age showed five distinct stages in early vocalization development: glottal; velar/uvular; vocalic; reduplicated consonant babbling; and variegated consonant babbling. Comparison with infants of differing linguistic backgrounds indicated…
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedChoi, Soonja – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Analysis of negative utterances from English-, French-, and Korean-speaking one- through three-year-olds identified nine distinct semantic/pragmatic categories with a similar developmental order in all three languages. Different patterns were found in the form-function relationship for the different categories. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, English, French
Jannedy, Stefanie, Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Reports of research in phonetics and psycholinguistics include: "Interaction with Autonomy: Defining Multiple Output Models in Psycholinguistic Theories" (Julie E. Boland, Anne Cutler); "Vocal Tract Evolution and Vowel Production" (K. Bretonnel Cohen); "Final Lowering in Kipare" (Rebecca Herman); "Gestural…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Bantu Languages, Chinese
Download full textHarley, Birgit; And Others – 1987
The Development of Bilingual Proficiency is a large-scale, five-year research project begun in 1981. The final report contains three volumes, each concentrating on specific issues investigated in the research: (1) the nature of language proficiency, including second language lexical proficiency and the development and growth of metaphor…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
