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Nordberg, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim was to investigate the staff's language support towards children in Swedish preschools after eight weeks of structured language support. This study took place after an initial study of six weeks' language support. To identify support of Language Learning Environment, Opportunities and Interactions an observation-tool was used. Structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Native Language Instruction, Child Language
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Pérez-Hernández, Lorena; Duvignau, Karine – First Language, 2016
The present study looks into the largely unexplored territory of the cognitive underpinnings of semantic approximations in child language. The analysis of a corpus of 233 semantic approximations produced by 101 monolingual French-speaking children from 1;8 to 4;2 years of age leads to a classification of a significant number of them as instances…
Descriptors: French, Monolingualism, Child Language, Figurative Language
Terrace, Herbert S. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1979
Focusing on the question, "Can chimpanzees produce new sentences or merely sequences?" Terrace describes his efforts to teach the chimpanzee Nim to communicate through sign language. From his results, and the Gardners' experiments with Washoe, he concludes that no proof yet exists that chimpanzees can use language as humans do. (SJL)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Child Language, Language Patterns, Language Research