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Emma Bergström; Anna Sofia Bratt; Idor Svensson – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Creating an environment suitable for language acquisition through shared reading significantly contributes to improving a child's language development and parent-child relationship. Reading in an interactive way, such as dialogic reading, is favorable. Nevertheless, dialogic reading is designed for children above the age of two and shared reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition, Early Reading
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Eveloff, Herbert H. – Child Development, 1971
Normal and abnormal language development depends to a great degree on the nature of the infant-mother relationship. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Newport, Elissa L.; Gleitman, Henry – 1977
This article hypothesizes that language repetition of young children (in the sense used by Kobashigawa and Snow) does not help language acquisition. The evidence comes from the results of a prior study in which no indication was found that mothers who repeat themselves a great deal have children who acquire language more quickly. However,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Vihman, Marilyn May – 1976
A discussion of word acquisition rates and strategies is based upon a 6-month case study of an Estonian-speaking child who gradually and systematically relaxed phonotactic constraints to allow greater complexity in word production. In addition to the cognitive tools of assimilation and accomodation as described by Piaget, the child used a further…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development