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Peer reviewedWeeks, Thelma E. – Child Development, 1971
Results suggest that children acquire speech registers concurrently with language and that the progression of acquisition varies more for registers than for grammatical forms. (Author)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedMorton, J. Bruce; Trehub, Sandra E. – Child Development, 2001
Explored in three experiments children's understanding of emotion in speech. Found gradual developmental change from 4-year-olds' focus on content to adult's focus on paralanguage. Children exhibited greater response latencies to utterances with conflicting cues than to those with nonconflicting cues. They accurately labeled affective paralanguage…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
