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First Sentences in Language and Symbolic Play.

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Shore, Cecilia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1984

Combinatorial abilities in language and elicited symbolic play were compared in a longitudinal study of 30 children at 20 and 28 months. In addition, multivariate analyses were used to assess the stability of individual differences. Generally, different symbolic play variables contributed unique explained variance to different language variables.…

Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences

Perception of Motherese in Japanese Sign Language by 6-Month-Old Hearing Infants.

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Masataka, Nobuo – Developmental Psychology, 1998

Compared 6-month-old hearing infants' responsiveness to infant-directed and adult-directed signing. Results replicated those found with deaf infants, namely that infants showed greater attentional and affective responsiveness to infant-directed sign than to adult-directed sign, suggesting that infants are prepared to detect sign motherese…

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Caregiver Speech, Child Language

Are Language-Acquisition Strategies Universal?

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Akiyama, Michael M. – Developmental Psychology, 1984

Tests the universality hypothesis of language acquisition by asking young monolingual English and Japanese children to verify true affirmatives, false affirmatives, false negatives, and true negatives. The hypothesis was not supported in the case of Japanese-speaking children. A theory of cross-linguistic language acquisition is proposed.…

Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition