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Keller-Cohen, Deborah – 1973
The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of deictic reference in the speech of 19 three-year-old Black children. The deictic verbs of motion are examined with reference to other aspects of the deictic system. The data for this study are approximately eight hours of spontaneous speech collected in a pre-school classroom. The hypothesis to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Research
Von Raffler Engel, Walburga – 1969
This paper represents an effort to explain the language development of the child within the analytic frame of overtly observable data and without recourse either to mathematical models or to postulating hypothetical underlying forms. From longitudinal studies of two-year old children conducted by the author as well as from similar data reported in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Function Words, Language Patterns
Branigan, George – 1976
Data on the development of fundamental frequency patterns and the emergence of semantic relations during the "one word period" in child language development are reported in this study. The research focuses on the changes that occur as children progress from producing single words to sequences of single words and finally to producing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Intonation, Language Acquisition
Black, Ruth W. – 1979
The crib talk reported here of a 2;2-2;4-year-old boy replicates the phenomenon of crib talk reported in previous studies by other investigators. This study adds a corpus of mother-child interaction (MCI) and tests one aspect of the hypothesis that crib talk may enhance production of linguistic forms at a later date. Transcripts of monologues were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Menyuk, Paula – 1972
Universal trends and individual variations in the language development process of the child are described and their relationships to beginning reading instruction are discussed. Child language begins with single word utterances to name things or to express needs and feelings. With a two-word utterance, the child can describe relationships more…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Child Language, Generative Grammar
Weeks, Thelma E. – 1978
One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intonation
Lord, Carol – 1979
A study of overregularized use of verbs by two children over a period when they were 2 1/2 to 5 years of age shows overregularizations in two directions: non-causative verbs were used as causatives; and causative verbs were used non-causatively. According to terminology from logic, predicates were classified according to the number of noun-phrase…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Akiyama, Michihiko – 1976
A study was conducted to compare the relative performance on yes-no questions of bilingual and monolingual children and to discuss the relationship of semantic development and linguistic development, both in the bilinguals and monolinguals. Eighteen English monolingual, eighteen Japanese monolingual, and eighteen Japanese-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Comprehension

Goldin-Meadow, Susan – 1979
The question is addressed whether a child would develop a communication system if a conventional linguistic model is absent. Six congenitally deaf children, who were not exposed to Sign Language, were observed and videotaped at play in their homes at intervals of one to three months. The children ranged in age from 1 year, 5 months to 4 years, 1…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Deafness, Deep Structure
Tollefson, James W. – 1976
Investigators agree that mothers employ a variety of request forms and that children seem to be able to respond to these forms with a remarkable degree of accuracy. It is suggested that the speech of mothers to their children is filled with requests which are really not requests at all. It is shown that many of what appear to be adult requests to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Schwartz, Richard G.; Folger, M. Karen – 1977
This study proposes that children's phonological behavior at Stage VI of sensorimotor development may show markedly decreased variability compared to children at Stage V. According to Piaget, sensorimotor development during Stage VI is distinguished from preceding stages by the onset of representational ability and ability to form mental…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Macken, Marlys A. – 1977
The acquisition of the consonant system by a child acquiring Mexican-Spanish as her native language is described. During the earliest stages (from 1;7 to 2;1 years of age), the data showed several phenomena that could best be accounted for by assuming a central role for the word as the basic unit being acquired. The evidence for the centrality of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Consonants, Language Acquisition
Medina-Nguyen, Suzanne – 1978
A review of the literature on child language reveals little research on overgeneralization in the speech of the bilingual child. Questions arise regarding (1) the existence of interlingual overgeneralizations, and (2) the possibility that monolingual deviations and bilingual code switching might be forms of overgeneralization. Because a model for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Chen, Margaret – 1979
This paper investigates the development of negative Wh-questions in a four year old subject acquiring English as her L1. Spontaneous and elicited speech samples were collected over a period of 6 months. During the course of the study, the subject began to invert subject and auxiliary, and by the end of the study she was inverting correctly in 38%…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes