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Peer reviewedUmek, Ljubica Marjanovic; Musek, Petra Lesnik; Kranjc, Simona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2001
Analyzed records of Slovene children's speech from a linguistic point of view and established differences in communication patterns with regard to the children's ages and the type of symbolic play. Found a shift in play from make-believe with regard to objects to roleplay related to social context. The older the child, the more language functions…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages
Download full textParker, Ellen – 1976
Gestural behavior between mothers and young children was hypothesized to be important in the acquisition of communicative competence. It was presumed that a typology of gestural function could assess non-verbal behavior. Data consisted of sound film samples of feeding and bathing events of three subject pairs. Initially the children ranged in age…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Body Language, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
