Twenty-four language-disordered children (ages 3-8 years) were trained, through modeling with a problem-solving set, to produce a question form involving a "wh" word--"who", "what", or "where"--in a structure requiring either auxiliary "is" or auxiliary "does." (Author)

Suggests ways to create dramatic play environments in which children can have experiences with all the language arts. (DD)

Children between the ages of 6 and 11 learn to understand and use the relative pronouns "qui" and "que." The closer the subordinate clause is to favorite word order, the easier it is for the child. (MLA)

A review of research reveals that explicit knowledge of language is not always desirable; instead, children should be exposed to language and have experiences which provoke language use. (DD)

Children's books contributee to language development by employing the teaching techniques of sentence repetition and expansion. (DD)

Three bedtime soliloquies of an eight-year-old echolalic autistic child were analyzed along the dimensions of echolia versus propositional speech, types of ungrammaticality produced, and analysis of connected discourse. (Author/SBH)

The study examined the use of primary sentence stress by seven preschool autistic children with mean length of utterance (MLU) scores between 1.9 and 4.1 morphemes with normal and aphasic subjects serving as controls. Differences were seen in the number of correct responses and in the pattern of stress misassignment. (Author/DB)

Recent research on the development of children's abilities to comprehend and produce metaphorical language is reviewed. It is argued that the ability to produce and comprehend metaphorical language emerges out of children's undifferentiated similarity notions and gradually develops into a capacity to encompass an increased variety of conceptual…

Discusses Mikhail Bakhtin's view of language acquisition. Contends that his ideas about language as ideology will allow syntactic and grammatical stumblings, as well as rhetorical failures, to be seen as possible manifestations of ongoing social and cognitive processes, rather than simply deficiencies of skill. (MS)

The study compared signed and spoken English in hearing-impaired children (N=50) of hearing-impaired parents (HIP) with another group of hearing-impaired children (N=50) of hearing parents (HP). At ages seven and eight, HIP children demonstrated a significant linguistic advantage in both their spoken and signed English over HP children. (Author/DB)

Briefly reviews research concerned with symbolic development in children born prematurely. Focus is on the complex process of sorting out the effects of biological maturation and environmental experience in the study of the emergent processes, and examining the effects of biological risk and environmental opportunity in determining developmental…

The article examines children's requests for clarification (RQCLs) in sections on the development of RQCL behaviors in normally developing children, the use of RQCL behaviors by language-impaired children, evaluation of language-impaired children's use of RQCL behaviors, and facilitation of language impaired children's use of and response to…

Two experiments using the habituation-dishabituation paradigm examined infants' ability to form and retrieve a basic-level category. Results indicated that infants categorized when tested immediately and after a five-minute delay. (PCB)

Four language disordered children (3 to 4-years-old) were taught such subject properties as agreement morphemes, nominative case, and question inversion by learning first subject function and then subject properties, suggesting that functional theory of language has diagnostic and treatment implications for language disordered children. (Author/DB)

This paper explicates the various elements of language context, discusses how readers and writers use context to transact meaning, and uses examples from two elementary learning disability resource rooms to demonstrate the importance of providing natural language contexts for language instruction. The role of the speech-language clinician is…