This dissertation investigates clitic doubling of both dative and accusative objects in adult and child language. It reports on three experimental studies designed to discover the specific distributional properties of this phenomenon, with particular attention to the effect of "rheme" and "kontrast," two distinct concepts often collapsed as…

The [voice] distinction between homorganic stops and fricatives is made by a number of acoustic correlates including voicing, segment duration, and preceding vowel duration. The present work looks at [voice] from a number of multidimensional perspectives. This dissertation's focus is a corpus study of the phonetic realization of [voice] in two…

Three different handbooks from child psychology, whose publication dates span 40 years, and a handbook on the psychology of aging were subjected to quantitate and qualitate comparative analyses. (Author/MB)

The Wug Test measures a lawful aspect of language development in children, at least throughout the primary school years. Certain morphological rules appear to be well established before school entry; most show development towards a ceiling at about the age of 12; some show slow development and do not reach their ceiling even by age 14. (Author/CB)

Results suggest distinct patterns by sex and grade level for both general and test anxiety. (MB)

Study suggests that, rather than being less able to organize information, young children simply organize according to different criteria than adults. (Authors)

In the present study, the authors collected data that would help resolve the controversey between developmental and defect theorists of mental retardation. (Authors/RY)