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Peer reviewedJohnston, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – Journal of Child Language, 1979
The ability of children between the ages of two years and four years, eight months, to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbocroatian, and Turkish to discover universals of conceptual and communicative development. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
PDF pending restorationJohnson, Judith R.; Slobin, Dan I. – 1977
A study was conducted in 1972-73 in Berkeley, Rome, Dubrovnik, and Istanbul, in order to examine the differences and similarities in the sequence of the development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. The subjects consisted of 48 two-, three-, and four-year-olds in each field site. Groups of three girls and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Download full textSlobin, Dan I. – 1968
The purpose of this paper is to review recent Soviet research on the child's development of Russian grammar, with detailed information on valuable methods for investigating this process. Cross-linguistic comparisons are made where applicable in view of their relevance for the study of universal aspects of language acquisition and linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bulgarian, Caucasian Languages, Child Language
