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Peer reviewedLovaas, 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
Peer reviewedMoerk, 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
Peer reviewedWoolum, Sandra J. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
In order to test the hypothesis that the ability to form verbal concepts would increase with age, a test for verbal concept formation was developed and administered to 668 children between the ages of 4 and 9. By varying sentences that describe nonsense figures, 4 variables were systematically explored. (MS)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
Download full textRamey, Craig T. – 1971
This paper deals with three areas concerning early vocal development: (1) review and critique of existing experimental evidence suggesting that early vocal behavior has the properties of an operant response, (2) speculations concerning the role of non-verbal vocal behavior in early psychological development, and (3) suggestions for future…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Hypothesis Testing, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition
PDF pending restorationKoenigsknecht, Roy A.; Lee, Laura L. – 1974
This document reports on three years of clinical research involving the development of effective clinical intervention procedures for children with slow language development. The assessment and treatment approaches discussed in the report are based upon the developmental model of grammar described in Developmental Sentence Analysis (DSA), a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Clinical Experience, Grammar, Group Instruction
PDF pending restorationLivingston, Kenneth R. – 1979
A theoretical distinction is made between the growth of word meaning and the development of word sense in Vygotsky's terms. A recall from semantic memory task and the semantic differential were used to operationalize these two conceptions of meaning in a study of 72 children aged 5 to 10 years. Results replicated typical findings for the growth of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Developmental Vocabulary, Language Acquisition
Bard, Barbara; Sachs, Jacqueline S. – 1977
This paper describes the linguistic development of two hearing sons of deaf parents. Both were exposed to an early language environment different from that of the average hearing child. At the start of the study, the boys were aged 3 years, 9 months, and 1 year, 8 months, respectively. When first observed, the older child performed well below age…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Deafness
