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Download full textGarnica, Olga K. – 1971
Speech discrimination by 12 children aged about 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 years was tested, using the discrimination learning procedure of Shvachkin's 1948 Russian study. Recent work on the acquisition of syntax and semantics shows an ordered acquisition for linguistic items; this pilot study was to test whether the ability to discriminate between consonants…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Child Language, Consonants
Huerta, Ana – 1977
Research was conducted to examine the language acquisition of a Mexican-American child who has been brought up in a linguistic environment where code-switching between Spanish and English is the dominant style of speaking. In addition, the relation of code- switching to the acquisition of bilingualism is analyzed. The speech of the subject, a…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Child Development, Child Language
