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Crawford, Jean Lenore – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of the passive. The apparent cross-linguistic delay of the verbal passive compared to other constructions suggests children's knowledge is somehow restricted, leading some to propose the difficulty arises because of syntactic maturation (Wexler 2004, Orfitelli 2012) or because of a heavy reliance…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Verbal Development
Kako, Edward – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Research in psychology and in linguistics has converged to suggest that the syntactic frames in which verbs appear carry meanings of their own, apart from the meaning of the verbs themselves. To date, however, a gap has existed between these two lines of research: Research in psychology has inferred the meanings of frames only indirectly; research…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Language Research, Semantics, Syntax
SAMUELS, S. JAY – 1967
IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF VOLUME 34, NUMBER 2 OF "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH" IN APRIL 1964. DISCUSSED ARE (1) LEARNING AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, (2) EMPIRICAL FINDINGS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS,…
Descriptors: Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistics

Lentin, Laurence – Langue Francaise, 1975
Reports on a study to determine the origin, development, and use of the comparative in children ages 2-7. The role of adult-child interaction in acquisition is discussed. Tabulated results show that the comparative is used infrequently by young children. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, French, Language Acquisition

Morsbach, Gisela; Steel, Pamela M. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This paper discusses C. Chomsky's 1969 paper on children's syntactic development and the subsequent studies made to test her findings. Later studies indicate that Chomsky's results were not clearly differentiated, and a slight alteration in procedure changes results significantly. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Psycholinguistics

Leroy, Christine – Langue Francaise, 1975
This article reports on a study to determine the role of intonation in language acquisition. Related studies are mentioned. Research methods for the study are outlined and two case studies are reviewed. Conclusions show that adult-child interaction influences not only the child's use of intonation but also his acquisition of syntax. (Text is in…
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Intonation, Language Acquisition

Park, Tschang-Zin – Journal of Child Language, 1978
The development of plurals in two German-speaking children was analyzed, based on observational data. It was argued that the children were learning plurals by rote, conditioned by morphological complexity which cannot be subsumed under any general rule. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, German, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Leonard, Laurence B.; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Focus is one factor that may account for children's use of single-word utterances after they have acquired the use of multi-word utterances. The possible role that focus may play in children's use of single-word utterances in naturalistic settings, after the acquisition of syntax, was investigated. (SW)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Rogers, Sinclair – Journal of Child Language, 1978
The purpose of the paper was to map the language development of children at infant school and examine spontaneous corrections made by the children of their speech. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Analysis (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Paour, Jean-Louis – Etudes de Linguistique Appliquee, 1975
Describes a study showing that mentally retarded children and mentally normal children do not differ fundamentally in cognitive development within the framework of a particular cognitive training. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Ramer, Anrya L. H. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
In this longitudinal investigation of the emerging grammar of seven children, differences in linguistic acquisition were observed. Analyses revealed two distinct styles of syntactic acquisition that appeared to be sex- and speed-related with specific ties to particular utterance types and grammatical-relational specification. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Longitudinal Studies

Scholes, Robert J. – Language and Speech, 1981
A comprehension task employing English animate third person pronouns was run on 100 children from three to seven years of age. Results show that comphrehension of forms beyond chance level first appears at age five, with continuing improvement through ages six and seven. Mastery of gender distinction preceded number and case. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Morphology (Languages)

Vihman, Marilyn May; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Using Locke's 1983 model, analyzes one tendency, consonant use in babbling and early words, and phonological word-selection patterns in 10 children, aged 8 to 16 months. Individual differences were found in all three domains analyzed, with some increase in uniformity across subjects with increasing knowledge of language. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Infants, Language Acquisition

Baldie, Brian J. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
This study aimed to determine the average ages at which children imitate, produce and comprehend passive constructions. Previous findings that imitation precedes comprehension, which precedes production, are confirmed in this study for children aged 3-8. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research
McNeill, David – 1968
This chapter, to be included in "Carmichael's Manual of Child Psychology," edited by P.A. Mussen, deals with the connection between the acquisition of language and the growth of intellect, and the connection between both of these and the process of maturation. The author feels that various theories of development cannot account for the child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Phonology