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Download full textFulton, Mary Wills – 1971
Analysis of adult evaluation of children's linguistic output provides a basis for elaboration upon the work of McNeill (1970) and Brown (1970). When limited to the uttered words of a child paired with an utterance spoken at an earlier time, adults cannot judge the relative age of the children making those utterances; in fact, their predictions of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation, Expressive Language
Peer reviewedRaaymakkers, Emile M. J. A.; Crul, Thom A. M. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
The relationship between speech perception and speech production was investigated, by comparing five six and seven-year-old Dutch children who misarticulated the final consonant cluster /-ts/ with three control groups. Results indicate that the poorer the articulation proficiency of a group, the more variability there was in both production and…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Articulation Impairments, Auditory Perception
Chapman, Robin S.; Kohn, Lawrence L. – 1977
A study was conducted to determine whether children give evidence of using any of six comprehension strategies and whether children of same and different ages use different strategies. It was studied how comprehension performance can best be predicted by other facts about the child, including his language and his language input. The six…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension
Martinez, Miriam G. – 1977
The sentences in two first grade basal readers were categorized using Joan Tough's language function classification system to determine whether lower level basal readers allowed children to use their knowledge of language functions in reading. The range of language functions and language uses in the basals was compared to those that Tough found in…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Children
Peer reviewedCaselli, Maria Cristina; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Examines children's variation in rate, style, and sequence of grammatical development, within and across natural languages. Using a sample of English and Italian infants, concludes that while there are structural differences between English and Italian that could affect the order in which nouns and verbs are acquired, no differences were observed…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Madden, Deirdre; Laurence, Deanna – 1997
This study examined the correlation between speech, language, and hearing screening results and demographic or family structure. Participating were 733 children in day care, between 3 and 6 years old, representing diverse economic and racial backgrounds. Speech, language, and hearing screenings were completed in 1989, 1993 and 1995. The Denver…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Employed Parents
