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Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
Snyder, Lynn S. – 1976
This investigation studied the performance of fifteen normal and fifteen language-disabled children on experimental pragmatic tasks and on a standardized Piagetian measure of sensorimotor intelligence. The children were matched for mean length of utterance, all subjects performing at the holophrastic level. A series of experimental measures was…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Greenfield, Patricia; Dent, Cathy – 1979
This study considers the interaction of syntactic and pragmatic factors (social and cognitive) in children's production of coordinate structures involving conjunction reduction. Two aspects of pragmatic context were considered: (1) the pattern of uncertainty or redundancy in a complex action sequence, and (2) the perceptual grouping of objects…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Conjunctions
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. – 1977
Previous research has shown how macro-structures can affect children's verbalizations. This study focuses on whether conversational contexts of forms are learned along with syntax, on what makes syntax, and on how to predict speech. Transcripts of videotapes of young children provided a matrix of function or act against actual utterance, wherein…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis
Kovac, Ceil – 1977
Children in school cooperate in the evaluation of their products and activities by teachers and other students by calling attention to these products and activities with various language strategies. The requests that someone notice something and/or praise it are the data base for this study. The unmarked speech act for this request type is in the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Bloom, Lois – 1976
This paper proposes a broad outline of a variable model of language development and explores several particulars of such a model in the language behavior of four two-year-old children. The process by which information about language is progressively transformed and integrated rather than merely being added together can be seen in the shifting…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
