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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Developmental Science, 2022
For the past 25 years, researchers have investigated language input to children from high- and low-socioeconomic status (SES) families. Hart and Risley first reported a "30 Million Word Gap" between high-SES and low-SES children. More recent studies have challenged the size or even existence of this gap. The present study is a…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Infants, Socioeconomic Status, Child Language
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Morgan, Lydia; Wren, Yvonne E. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2018
Children's speech development begins in infancy. The pattern of this development has been explored in studies over a number of years using a range of research methodology and approaches to investigation. A systematic review of the existing literature was carried out to determine the collective contribution of this literature to our understanding…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Focus is one factor that may account for children's use of single-word utterances after they have acquired the use of multi-word utterances. The possible role that focus may play in children's use of single-word utterances in naturalistic settings, after the acquisition of syntax, was investigated. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Oller, D. Kimbrough; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This research disputes the traditional position on babbling by showing that the phonetic content of babbled utterances exhibits many of the same preferences for certain kinds of phonetic elements and sequences that have been found in the production of meaningful speech by children in later stages of language development. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Ramer, Anrya L. H. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
In this longitudinal investigation of the emerging grammar of seven children, differences in linguistic acquisition were observed. Analyses revealed two distinct styles of syntactic acquisition that appeared to be sex- and speed-related with specific ties to particular utterance types and grammatical-relational specification. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Longitudinal Studies
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Marchman, Virginia A.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Presents data from a longitudinal investigation concerning the development of language and communicative skills in infants suffering from focal brain injury in the pre- or perinatal period. Phonological analyses of babbling and first words are focused upon, as well as parental reports of the use of gestures for communicative purposes, word…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Communication Skills, Longitudinal Studies
Pea, Roy D.; And Others – 1982
Extensive longitudinal data were gathered on a child's entry into the symbolically mediated modal world by examining changes in the semantics and pragmatics of her uses of modal auxiliary verbs. The data are 53 transcripts of natural conversations between a girl, Nina, and her mother recorded periodically from her 23rd month to her 39th month. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Tager-Flusberg, Helen – 1982
The development of relative clauses in child speech was investigated using an elicited production task instead of spontaneous speech samples. In an elicited production task, the context is manipulated so that a complex sentence must be used for communication. Thirty-six English speaking children from 3 to 5 years old were provided with contexts…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Phrase Structure
Schieffelin, Bambi B. – 1979
Recent studies have documented the importance of a variety of contextualization cues such as intonation, voice quality, volume, and pitch in conversation. The appropriate use of and response to them presupposes that one has certain kinds of linguistic and sociocultural knowledge. There remains, however, the question of how children acquire this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
Cazden, Courtney B., Ed. – 1972
Eight articles about oral language education for preschool children are presented. They are: (1) a point of view on oral language education--"Suggestions from Studies of Early Language Acquisition,""Language Programs for Young Children: Notes from England and Wales," and "The Issue of Structure," by Courtney Cazden; (2) suggestions for curriculum…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Smith, Bruce L. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
Developmental aspects of several temporal parameters in the speech of 2- to 4-year-old English-speaking children were investigated; adults served as a control group. Children seemed to possess timing control systems which are more sophisticated than has previously been suggested. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition
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Sabeau-Jouannet, Emilie – Langue Francaise, 1977
A discussion of the child's language acquisition including examples of syntactic development. This analysis is introduced by references to various language theories, particularly the generative and psycholinguistic theories, and to various systems of syntactic description. The examples given raise questions on the theoretic and ideological levels.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Boggs, Stephen T. – 1983
A major purpose of the research reported here is to determine whether or not children of minority backgrounds possess the ability to tell stories and verbalize in narrative form at age 3 and 4. Narratives and speech play were collected over a 9-month period in two Headstart classes in Honolulu (Hawaii). The children, most of mixed backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Hawaiians
Stoel-Gammon, Carol; Cabral, Leanor Scliar – 1977
This paper examines children's early attempts at describing events absent in space and time, referred to as the "reportative function." The first part of the paper offers some explanations for the late emergence of the reportative function in young children's speech. Part two presents examples of children's attempts to report past events…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communicative Competence (Languages)
Tanouye, Ellen K. – 1979
A study of data on Japanese children shows that the development of verbs occurs at the same time as the development of nouns and may even precede it. The subjects for the study were two children who were learning Japanese as their first language. Four speech samples, taken between the ages of 22 and 28 months, were audiotaped and supplemented by…
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Japanese, Language Acquisition
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