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Theakston, Anna L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study, 5-year-olds and adults described scenes that differed according to whether (a) the subject or object of a transitive verb represented an accessible or inaccessible referent, consistent or inconsistent with patterns of preferred argument structure, and (b) a simple noun was sufficient to uniquely identify an inaccessible referent.…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Adults
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Summers, Marcia; Hahs, Jennifer; Summers, Carl R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examined the conversational patterns of older children with their younger siblings. Findings reveal that the siblings of disabled children appeared to be less conversationally sensitive with their brothers and sisters than the siblings of nondisabled children. (34 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Aptitude, Language Impairments, Language Patterns
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Fujiki, Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
A study examined the manner in which 10 specifically language-impaired children and their linguistically normal chronological age-matched peers repaired overlapping speech. Conversational samples from each student were elicited by an adult examiner. (26 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Handicaps, Language Patterns
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Thevenin, Deborah M.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Describes a study of adult listeners' perceptions of infant babbling. Adult judges were unable to identify language background significantly above chance level. Findings do not support the babbling drift hypothesis which predicts that babbling begins to approximate characteristics of the mother tongue as infants approach meaningful speech. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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De Weirdt, Willy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Probes the relation between speech perception and reading ability of children who were good or poor readers. Results indicate that reading-related perception differences were especially marked in a comparison of actual and predicted discrimination scores. Identification slope and phoneme boundary differences between reader groups were found as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
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Gierut, Judith A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Refutes the reanalysis of a phonologically disordered child's use of fricatives as developed by Fey (1989) within a relational framework. Evidence in the form of nonsystematic correspondence between the child's substitution patterns and the target sound system is used to further establish accuracy of the original independent generative analysis…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
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Vihman, Marilyn May; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Using Locke's 1983 model, analyzes one tendency, consonant use in babbling and early words, and phonological word-selection patterns in 10 children, aged 8 to 16 months. Individual differences were found in all three domains analyzed, with some increase in uniformity across subjects with increasing knowledge of language. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Lynch, Michael P. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Reports on the continuing study of a congenitally acochlear child using an analytical focus on the prelinguistic vocalizations involving the description of syllable groupings within a prosodic hierarchy. Results indicate that audition is not necessary for the formation of prelinguistic phrasing, but hearing does influence certain aspects of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Audiotape Recordings, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language
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Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
A study tested models concerning syntactic categories in early multiword speech by investigating overlap in contexts in which children (n=11) used determiner types. Results indicate children have little knowledge of relationships between different determiner types, suggesting development of an adultlike syntactic determiner category may be…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Determiners (Languages), Language Acquisition
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Kelly, Donna J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Preschoolers with specific language impairment (SLIs) and two groups of linguistically normally developing children described motion and change-of-state scenes while viewing a video, and patterns of verb use were analyzed. Although SLIs relied heavily on general all-purpose verbs, normally developing children used them more. SLIs made more verb…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Communication Disorders, Comparative Analysis
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Smith, Bruce L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1990
Examination of the use of short "tongue-twister" phrases in eliciting spontaneous slips of the tongue in five year olds indicated that the technique was a feasible and beneficial method for collecting spoonerism data from children. (24 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns
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Fey, Marc E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Reanalyzes Gierut's study that presents a case in which a phonological intervention program is used to effect a phonemic split in a child with a highly restricted phonological system. Three alternatives to Gierut's analysis are presented and discussed. (21 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Children, Discourse Analysis
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Vihman, Marilyn May – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
Analyzes the language acquisition of a bilingual (Estonian/English) child. Discusses his preference for acquiring whole words as opposed to inflections and offers several possible reasons for this particular learning strategy. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Style
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Zlatic, Larisa; Macneilage, Peter; Matyear, Christine L.; Davis, Barbara L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examines the phonetic characteristics of babbling by a pair of fraternal twins raised in a bilingual environment (English/Serbian). The study focused on the basic articulatory form of babbling, the impact of twinship on babbling patterns, and whether effects specific to one or another of the ambient languages could be observed. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Family Environment
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Rescorla, Leslie; Okuda, Sachiko – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Analysis of data from the first six months of acquisition of English as a second language by a Japanese five-year-old illustrated the role of modular "chunking" and coupling in the second language acquisition process, apparent in the child's pre-copula and copula referential utterances. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)