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Direct linkZamuner, Tania S.; Gerken, Louann; Hammond, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This research explores the role of phonotactic probability in two-year-olds' production of coda consonants. Twenty-nine children were asked to repeat CVC non-words that were used as labels for pictures of imaginary animals. The CVC non-words were controlled for their phonotactic probabilities, neighbourhood densities, word-likelihood ratings, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech
Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US
Aukrust, Vibeke Grover – Journal of Child Language, 2004
Recent studies have suggested that cultures vary in subtle ways in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce. Twenty-two three-year-old children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway and Cambridge, Massachusetts were observed during mealtime with the aim of identifying talk-focused talk. The analysis distinguished talk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition
