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Peer reviewedKuczaj, Stan A., II; Borys, Robert H. – Language Sciences, 1988
Three- to nine-year-olds' (N=80) post-exposure production of regular and irregular suffixes indicated that subjects found it easier to learn a regular suffix when they heard it used with phonetically similar base forms. Subjects were more likely to overgeneralize the regular suffix to irregular forms when they had heard it used in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Morphophonemics
Peer reviewedBohannon, John Neil, III; Leubecker, Amye Warren – Language Sciences, 1988
Describes a model that allows children to control the complexity of the speech they hear within conversations on a moment-to-moment basis. Experimental and observational data clearly delineate the reciprocal nature of how speakers "fine-tune" their speech to listeners. The effects of child-directed speech on language development are discussed.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Peer reviewedVorster, Jan – Language Sciences, 1988
Longitudinal studies of the application of a paraphrasing model to 18- to 28-month-olds indicated that mean length of utterance was significantly correlated with realized and paraphrased frequencies of several linguistic items in the subjects' corpora. The model was productive for examining children's corpora of speech and the linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Oral Language
Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael – Language Sciences, 1988
Examines joint attentional processes in children's early lexical acquisition and conversational interaction. Early language development builds on adult-child joint attentional focus on nonlinguistic entities. A developmental sequence of joint attentional processes in early language development is proposed, and the role of adults in this sequence…
Descriptors: Attention, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedBaker, Nancy D.; Greenfield, Patricia M. – Language Sciences, 1988
A longitudinal study of four 17- to 33-month-olds revealed that their linguistic selection at the one-word stage was governed by principles of informativeness, while the two-word stage was characterized by new, or a combination of new and old, information. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedPeng, Fred C. C. – Language Sciences, 1988
A study evaluated how well autistic and non-autistic Japanese primary children (N=35) were able to describe the events in a five-frame cartoon. Results are discussed in terms of cognitive ability and linguistic skills. Discussion focuses on how to help autistic individuals improve their language once they have acquired its rudiments. (DJD)
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Ability
Peer reviewedLorch, Marjorie Perlman; Meara, Paul – Language Sciences, 1995
Examines the ability of monolingual English-speaking subjects to judge whether two spoken samples are from the same or different unknown foreign language. Performance of subjects was only a small degree above chance, while at the same time giving reliable information about recognition and identification skills. Further studies are needed. (16…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, College Students, Data Analysis
