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Faingold, Eduardo Daniel – Language Sciences, 1990
Discusses the strategies that a child might employ during the one-word stage in constructing an early lexicon. An attempt is made to shed light on some strategies by analyzing the lexical and phonological development of two children who seem to take opposite approaches. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Individual Differences, Language Universals

Laws, Glynis; And Others – Language Sciences, 1995
Reports on a study of the color terms used in Setswana. The study compared terms used by children with those of adults and those used by people from rural areas with those used by people from urban areas. Results show a move away from traditional Setswana color terms toward the use of borrowed English terms, particularly among the young and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Color, Data Analysis