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Twelve to 24-Month-Olds Can Understand the Meaning of Morphological Regularities in Their Language
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Ferry, Alissa; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques – Developmental Psychology, 2020
To learn a language infants must learn to link arbitrary sounds to their meaning. While words are the clearest example of this link, they are not the only component of language; morphological regularities (e.g., the plural -s suffix in English) carry meaning as well. Comprehensive theories of language acquisition must account for how infants build…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
Interplay of Function Morphemes and Prosody in Early Language.
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Gerken, LouAnn; McIntosh, Bonnie J. – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Two experiments examined young children's sensitivity to linguistic contexts in which particular function morphemes occur. Results showed that children who did not produce articles in spontaneous speech were able to distinguish between sentences, verbally presented in picture identification tasks, that contained grammatical articles and those that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Function Words, Language Acquisition
Integrating Language and Gesture in Infancy.
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Bates, Elizabeth; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examined relationships among word comprehension, word production, and enactive and gestural naming by 136 infants of 12-16 months. Results indicate that infants can use adult speech as an aid in the reproduction of modeled gestures. (RJC)
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Comprehension, Infants
Syntactic Categories in the Speech of Young Children.
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Valian, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines speech samples from six children aged 2 years to 2 years, 5 months, with Mean Lengths of Utterance ranging from 2.93 to 4.14, were examined for evidence of six syntactic categories: determiner, adjective, noun, noun phrase, preposition, and prepositional phrase. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Evaluation Criteria, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition
Function and Structure in Maternal Speech: Their Relation to the Child's Development of Syntax.
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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Assesses the interrelations among the functional properties of maternal speech, the structural properties of maternal speech, and child language growth for a period of six months for 22 two-year-old children and their mothers. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Influences, Interpersonal Communication
Perception of Motherese in a Signed Language by 6-Month-Old Deaf Infants.
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Masataka, Nobuo – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined whether the characteristics in perception of speech sounds found in preverbal hearing infants might extend to the perception of signed language in infants with congenital deafness. Seventeen Japanese mother-infant dyads participated in the study. Found that infants with deafness showed greater attentional and affective responsiveness to…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Children's Answers to Yes-No Questions: A Developmental Study in English, French, and Korean.
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Choe, Soonja – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of young English-, French-, and Korean-speaking children showed that, across the three languages, children go through three similar developmental stages before they acquire the adult system of answering negative questions. Several language-specific phenomena were observed. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries