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Saaristo-Helin, Katri – Language and Speech, 2009
This study applies the Phonological Mean Length of Utterance measurement (PMLU; Ingram & Ingram, 2001; Ingram, 2002) to the data of five children acquiring Finnish and evaluates their phonological development longitudinally at four different age points: 2;0, 2;6, 3;0, and 3;6. The children's results on PMLU and related measures are discussed…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Individual Differences, Followup Studies
Song, Jae Yung; Demuth, Katherine – Language and Speech, 2008
Children's early word productions often differ from the target form, sometimes exhibiting vowel lengthening when word-final coda consonants are omitted (e.g., "dog" /d[open o]g/ [arrow right] [d[open o]:]). It has typically been assumed that such lengthening compensates for a missing prosodic unit (a mora). However, this study raises the…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonetic Analysis
Christophe, Anne; Millotte, Severine; Bernal, Savita; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language and Speech, 2008
This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate prosodic phrases (phonological phrases) during the first year of life, and use these to constrain lexical segmentation. These same intermediate prosodic phrases are used by…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Infants, Language Processing
Crain, Stephen – Language and Speech, 2008
Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what "or" means in ordinary statements of the form "A or B". Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us that young children do not learn what "or" means by watching how adults use "or". An alternative is to suppose that…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Research, Semantics, Child Language

Richgels, Donald J. – Language and Speech, 1983
Discusses children's comprehension of complex sentences as measured by a picture selection test. Concludes that the interplay of both syntactic factors, such as active vs. passive, and nonsyntactic factors, such as expectation, must be considered in any characterization of children's sentence comprehension ability. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comprehension, Language Acquisition

Carpenter, Robert L.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1983
Describes the acquisition of a set of nonverbal intentionally communicative behaviors for six preverbal infants followed longitudinally. Results show a trend for a set of communicative intentions to emerge in the following sequence: (1) protesting, (2) request for action, (3) request for object, (4) comment on action, (5) comment on object, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Infants

Klecan-Aker, Joan S.; And Others – Language and Speech, 1983
Describes a study that examines the pragmatic language functions used by school-age children during a structured dialog consisting of a question-answer paradigm. Develops a 10-category taxonomy to classify subjects' responses and finds the taxonomy to be effective in two ways: (1) the number of categories is sufficient, and (2) the interscorer…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Vigario, Marina; Freitas, Maria Joao; Frota, Sonia – Language and Speech, 2006
This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Acquisition, Portuguese, Suprasegmentals

Prinz, Philip M. – Language and Speech, 1983
Investigates the extent to which children develop the ability to comprehend and explain literal and idiomatic meanings as a function of age and sex. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Child Language, Children

Nussbaum, N. Jo; Naremore, Rita C. – Language and Speech, 1975
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Usage

Young, George M. – Language and Speech, 1985
Proposes a model of syntax in which marked structures are conceived as the realization of modes of control that regulate the informational flow of the text at points of threatened discontinuity. Describes two of these modes, found in children's writing, which are concerned with relations of logic and focus. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Greenfield, Patricia Marks – Language and Speech, 1973
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior

Locke, John L.; Goldstein, Jeffrey I. – Language and Speech, 1973
Presents the results of a study of attention as a factor in children's natural and experimental acquisition of articulatory behavior. (TO)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Attention Span, Child Development, Child Language

Locke, John L. – Language and Speech, 1973
Presents a review of various studies on the acquisition, nature, and function of language coding in children's learning. (TO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition

Scholes, Robert J. – Language and Speech, 1981
A comprehension task employing English animate third person pronouns was run on 100 children from three to seven years of age. Results show that comphrehension of forms beyond chance level first appears at age five, with continuing improvement through ages six and seven. Mastery of gender distinction preceded number and case. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)
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