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Peer reviewedChilders, Jane B.; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Two studies investigated linguistic representations underlying English-speaking 2.5-year-olds' production of transitive utterances. Findings indicated that children trained with pronouns and nouns could produce a transitive utterance creatively with a novel verb. Results suggest that English-speaking children build many of their early linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedBates, 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
Peer reviewedCoster, Wendy J.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examined the communicative behavior of 40 maltreated and nonmaltreated 31-month-old toddlers and their mothers. Results revealed that maltreated toddlers followed a pattern of shorter mean length of utterance, less descriptive speech, and proportionally less relevant speech. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Language, Child Neglect, Communication Skills
Peer reviewedRidgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language
