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Mental Terms and the Development of Certainty.
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Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Some Observations on the Nonextinguishability of Children's Speech
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Lovaas, O. Ivar; And Others – Child Development, 1977
This study attempted to test the notion that the reinforcing stimuli which maintain high rates of speech may not consist solely of events extrinsic to the person but may involve (sensory) stimulation generated by the behavior itself. (Author)
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Handicapped Children, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Processes of Language Teaching and Training in the Interactions of Mother-Child Dyads
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Moerk, Ernst L. – Child Development, 1976
The verbal interactions of 20 mothers with their children, who were between 1.9 and 5.0 years old, were recorded and analyzed. (SB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Infants, Language Acquisition, Mothers
Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Knowledge of Action and Object Words: A Comparison of Lower- and Middle-Class Negro Preschoolers
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Jeruchimowicz, Rita; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Black Youth, Language Acquisition, Nouns, Preschool Children
The Development of Speech Act Comprehension in Mentally Retarded Individuals and Nonretarded Children.
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Abbeduto, Leonard; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Studied the development of speech act comprehension in 36 retarded and 36 nonretarded children at the developmental ages of five, seven, and nine years. Retarded and nonretarded individuals followed the answer obviousness rule and used the contextual and linguistic clues available to respond to yes-no interrogative sentences. (RJC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Developmental Milestones: Sign Language Acquisition and Motor Development.
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Bonvillian, John D.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Studied across a 16-month period, young children of deaf parents showed accelerated early language development, on the average producing their first recognizable sign at 8.5 months, their tenth sign at 13.2 months, and their first sign combination at 17.0 months. Findings are inconsistent with previously reported patterns of synchrony between…
Descriptors: Deafness, Infant Behavior, Infants, Language Acquisition
Some Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Early Language Development
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Eveloff, Herbert H. – Child Development, 1971
Normal and abnormal language development depends to a great degree on the nature of the infant-mother relationship. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)