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Moerk, Ernst L. – 1985
This investigation addresses problems of defining verbal imitation, and suggests solutions by analyzing verbal interactions between two children and their mothers. Children were between 18 and 35 months old, with a mean length of utterance between 1.4 and 4.2 morphemes. Analyses focus upon the uses these children made of maternal models; 10…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMoerk, Ernst L.; Wong, Neil – Linguistics, 1976
The behavior of a preverbal infant was analyzed in a search for orderly and systematic patterns. Basic elements of the infant's repertoire were distinguished. A comparison was made between the nonverbal and those verbal structures which appear early. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
