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Matthei, Edward H. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Analyzes a child's use of word-level phonological constraints in multi-word utterances. The selection and avoidance patterns and modifications of adult forms indicated the presence of a syllable sequencing constraint that governed grammar and word combinations. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Infants, Language Patterns

Shute, Brenda; Wheldall, Kevin – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Analysis of speech samples from British female adults (N=8) revealed that the subjects increased vocal pitch when addressing young children, but not as much as previously studied North American subjects did. Pitch increases were more commonly observed in free speech than in reading-aloud conditions. (23 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Intonation, Language Patterns

Bassano, Dominique; Champaud, Christian – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Examines how children understand the argumentative function of the French connective meme (even). Two completion tasks, related to the argumentative properties of the morpheme, were used: 1) to infer the conclusion of an "even" sentence, and 2) to infer the argument position. (34 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns

Kuczaj, Stan A., II; Borys, Robert H. – Language Sciences, 1988
Three- to nine-year-olds' (N=80) post-exposure production of regular and irregular suffixes indicated that subjects found it easier to learn a regular suffix when they heard it used with phonetically similar base forms. Subjects were more likely to overgeneralize the regular suffix to irregular forms when they had heard it used in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Morphophonemics

Rydell, Patrick J.; Mirenda, Pat – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
This study of 3 boys (ages 5-6) with autism found that adult high-constraint antecedent utterances elicited more verbal utterances in general, including subjects' echolalia; adult low-constraint utterances elicited more subject high-constraint utterances; and the degree of adult-utterance constraint did not influence the mean lengths of subjects'…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Echolalia, Interpersonal Communication
Glennen, Sharon L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: Language and speech are difficult to assess in newly arrived internationally adopted children. The purpose of this study was to determine if assessments completed when toddlers were first adopted could predict language outcomes at age 2. Local norms were used to develop early intervention guidelines that were evaluated against age 2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Articulation (Speech), Early Intervention, Language Patterns
Haznedar, Belma – Second Language Research, 2007
The aim of this article is two-fold: to test the Aspect Hypothesis, according to which the early use of tense-aspect morphology patterns by semantic/aspectual features of verbs, and Tense is initially defective (e.g. Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Bloom et al., 1980; Andersen and Shirai, 1994; 1996; Robison, 1995; Shirai and Andersen, 1995;…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Child Language
Papafragou, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2006
One of the tasks of language learning is the discovery of the intricate division of labour between the lexical-semantic content of an expression and the pragmatic inferences the expression can be used to convey. Here we investigate experimentally the development of the semantics-pragmatics interface, focusing on Greek-speaking five-year-olds'…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Inferences, Pragmatics
Foster-Cohen, Susan; Edgin, Jamie O.; Champion, Patricia R.; Woodward, Lianne J. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
This study examined the effects of being born very preterm on children's early language development using prospective longitudinal data from a representative regional cohort of 90 children born very preterm (gestational age less than 33 weeks and/or birth weight less than 1,500 grams) and a comparison sample of 102 children born full term…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Premature Infants, Foreign Countries, Language Skills

Stark, Rachel E.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1975
Results are described of a study of vocalizations of two female infants, classified as cry, discomfort, and vegetative sounds, recorded between one and eight weeks of age. The implications for later speech development are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Sachs, Jacqueline; And Others – 1980
The first phase of an ongoing study of communication in a naturalistic situation in which children talked to familiar children is described in this paper. The situation was one that encouraged pretend (or dramatic) play. Research was focused on (1) the amount of pretend play; (2) the amount of speech used for planning or managing the play; and (3)…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns

Pfaff, Carol W. – 1971
This paper documents a coding system developed to facilitate the investigation of linguistic variation in Black English. The rationale for employment of such a system is given. The use of the coding system in a study of child Black English is described and the codes for 41 phonological and syntactic variables investigated in the study are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Codification, English

Elbers, Loekie; Ton, Josi – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Presents a case study of the babbling monologues produced by a Dutch child in the six weeks following acquisiton of the first word, which shows that this child's word production and his concurrent babbling are very much related. Concludes that word production influences the course of babbling and vice versa. (SED)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Dutch, Infants
Ushakova, T. N. – Psychological Questions, 1969
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Child Language, Language Patterns, Neurolinguistics
Itzcovich, Susana R. – Yelmo, 1973
Article to be continued. (DS)
Descriptors: Books, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Language Ability