In examining the issue of why children do so well at language learning despite limited skill and experience, two possible explanations are addressed: one suggests that children learn language well exactly because they are limited, and the other proposes that children are extremely adept at language learning, perhaps more so than adults. Research…

Studies are reviewed on the spontaneous speech of mothers of hearing children and hearing impaired children of various ages. Results are reported according to six major topics (sample findings in parentheses): syntax (the syntactic complexity and length of maternal utterances uniformly increased with the age of the hearing children from infancy to…

Part of a collection of papers commissioned by Foundations, a development project that examined the career development needs of students entering the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the paper reviews a range of developmental theories and models that pertain to adolescents and young adults. An attempt is made to create a composite…

A study of the development of abstract noun definitions in children and adolescents had as its subjects 120 students evenly divided into age groups of 10-, 14-, and 18-year-olds, randomly selected from students scoring in the 40th to 88th percentiles on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (for 10-year-olds) and the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency…

Assesses the importance and implications of the 'critical period' in second-language learning, which occurs when second-language learning overlaps primary language learning, ages two to thirteen. (LG)

A preference procedure which makes possible a wide range of fine grammatical contrasts is proposed as an alternative to the traditional comprehension testing procedure. (GW)

From the earliest times of Europeans in North America the triad of explorer, missionary, and scholar has reacted and interacted with the Native languages and the results of this interaction is a large, sophisticated body of data and techniques that has contributed greatly to the development of linguistics, and to the preservation, analysis and…

Discussed programs for trainable and mentally retarded children and adults developed by HARC. (RK)

Explores the possible influences of commercial and educational television on young children's imaginative play, intellectual development and behavior. Commercialism, learning readiness, television's unique mode of communication, and the child's sensory experiences while viewing are considered from the standpoint of developmental needs. (SDH)

A general look at the trends of language instruction, specifically French and German, via radio and television broadcast in Great Britain. (HB)

Children, aged 4-8 were given 2-term relational problems to test the hypothesis that only older children can process sentences as propositions and realize their logical implications. Results indicated even the youngest children could perform the task. (ST)

The aim was to determine whether logical concepts acquired in one language could be transferred to another language. (Author)

Analyzes first grade children's perception of written word boundaries after a year of reading instruction, concluding that children have little idea what words are after their first year of instruction. (RB)