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Stem Endings and the Acquisition of Inflections
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Solomon, Martha – Language Learning, 1972
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, English, Kindergarten Children
The Acquisition of Morphological Inflections by Children Four to Ten
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Bellamy, Martha M.; Bellamy, Sidney E. – Language Learning, 1970
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, English, Language Ability
The Role of Diminutives in the Acquisition of Russian Gender: Can Elements of Child-Directed Speech Aid in Learning Morphology
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Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2005
This study investigated second-language (L2) learning to gain a better understanding of learning mechanisms that also operate in child first-language L1 learners. The research was inspired by research on the beneficial effects of child-directed speech CDS. We tried to examine whether such benefits can be observed in the domain of inflectional…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Russian, English, Nouns
French L2 Learners: What They're Talking About.
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Lightbown, Patsy M. – Language Learning, 1977
Describes a research project in which the acquisition of French by two six-year-old boys, native speakers of English, was observed longitudinally. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning: Assertion versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition.
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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)
A Longitudinal Study of Pragmatic Differentiation in Young Bilingual Children.
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Nicoladis, Elena; Genesee, Fred – Language Learning, 1996
Examined whether there is an earlier developmental stage than 2 years of age when bilingual children do not use their languages in pragmatically differentiated ways. Analyses of recordings of four French-English bilingual children in Canada during free play sessions with their mothers and fathers suggest a stage very early in development when…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)