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Direct linkOzcaliskan, Seyda; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The types of gesture+speech combinations children produce during the early stages of language development change over time. This change, in turn, predicts the onset of two-word speech and thus might reflect a cognitive transition that the child is undergoing. An alternative, however, is that the change merely reflects changes in the types of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Caregivers, Language Acquisition, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedChoe, Soonja – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of young English-, French-, and Korean-speaking children showed that, across the three languages, children go through three similar developmental stages before they acquire the adult system of answering negative questions. Several language-specific phenomena were observed. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
