Children aged 2, 6, and 9 years old were presented with four sets of differing objects and were asked to tell the experimenter which object out of each set they liked best. It was discovered that, as children grow older, pointing becomes rarer and linguistic descriptions become more appropriate. In two further experiments, the distance between…

IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF VOLUME 34, NUMBER 2 OF "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH" IN APRIL 1964. DISCUSSED ARE (1) LEARNING AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, (2) EMPIRICAL FINDINGS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS,…

Three 4-year-old boys were subjects of an experiment involving reinforcement of verbal imitation. Intended to provide insights into language learning and speech therapy, this investigation began by introducing to the subjects the idea of imitation of the experimenter's words. Each time the child correctly reproduced the stimulus word, he was given…

Contrastive analysis is basic to all linguistics since only by this approach can a general theory of language (language universals) be constructed and only with at least implicit contrastive analysis can a particular language be fully characterized. Two kinds of contrastive analysis have been basic to diachronic linguistics: the comparison of…

The paper reviews research on and techniques for early linguistic intervention with retarded children. Outlined are principles upon which linguistic intervention should be based, a definition of early intervention, the rationale for early language and communication intervention, and principles for developmental prelinguistic and early linguistic…

The influence of children's levels of field-dependence-independence on their performance with the passive transformation was investigated. Eighty 6th graders, classified as field-dependent or field-independent, were presented with sentence-question combinations, each in either the active or passive voice, and numbers of correct responses were…

This study examined the feasibility of one method of investigating the development of children's implicit awareness of syntactic patterns. An enriched version of the free association format was used to test 32 subjects. The principal variables of interest were the subject's grade level, and the syntactic pattern and meaningfulness of the semantic…

The object of this book is to make clear, by the use of a minimum number of examples, generally taken from French, that science encounters in languages phenomena which are organized according to structure. These phenomena function as tools of communication among men in a society at a given place and time, and as subjects in the evolution that…

An instructor's text-workbook, consisting of fifteen booklets, to accompany LINC Communications Developmental Reading course, is presented. Five Unit Headings are: Word Analysis; Word Meaning; Literal Comprehension; Interpretive Comprehension; Evaluative Comprehension. An answer key is provided. Booklets and key are bound separately for inclusion…

Two experiments are reported investigating young children's comprehension of linguistic reference to past and future times. Available from Plenum Publishing Corp., 227 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011. (Author/RM)

Creative drama and language experiences are described as ways of improving speech and language learning in communication disordered children. (CL)

Makes an analogy between the formation of a Creole and the language acquisition process in a child. (AM)

Investigators determined that recent research, showing no sex differences as to the age at which children acquire language, actually may have employed techniques inferior to those used in earlier studies, which showed that girls were more advanced. (MP)