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Goldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others – Cognition, 1976
Two stages in the vocabulary development of two-year-olds are reported. In the earlier Receptive stage, the child says many fewer nouns than he understands and says no verbs at all although he understands many. The child then enters a Productive stage in which he says virtually all the nouns he understands plus his first verbs. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comprehension, Language Acquisition

Largo, Remo H.; Howard, Judy A. – Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 1979
Found no correlations between types of play behavior and speech measures, that identification of objects upon verbal request was not related to any type of play behavior, and that comprehension of verbal requests for functional or representational play was positively correlated with the display of such play. Journal availability: J. B. Lippincott…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

Steffensen, Margaret S. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
A phenomenon called "pragmatic variation" is discussed as a child's individual system of behavior in response to a question the child doesn't understand but realizes that he must verbalize an answer to. (NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

Coker, Pamela L. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
In testing kindergartners and first graders in their comprehension of the words "before" and "after," it was found that when temporal terms are acquired, they are first used as prepositions and then as subordinating conjunctions. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

Berndt, Rita Sloan; Caramazza, Alfonso – Journal of Child Language, 1978
Preschool children's comprehension of the adverbial modifiers "very" and "sort of" was experimentally investigated in 64 children. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development

Hopmann, Marita R.; Maratsos, Michael P. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This experiment used two groups of preschoolers and one group of young grade-schoolers to test for their comprehension of presuppositions and negation in complex syntax. (NCR)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition

Ridgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language
Bates, Elizabeth; And Others – 1979
A study is reported relevant to the relationship between first words learned by children and gestural symbolization under a variety of contextual conditions. It is part of a larger longitudinal study of 32 children at 10, 13, 20, and 27 months of age. The children were seen in three standardized situations for eliciting gestural and vocal symbols:…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Body Language, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Serapiglia, Theresa – 1978
The purpose of this study is to compare the English syntactic structures produced in spontaneous oral language and the receptive English syntactic and vocabulary skills of bilingual Spanish and Indian children and monolingual Anglo-Americans, all of whom qualify for Title I elementary schools (Grades 1-6). People in Action, the Northwestern Syntax…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Comprehension
Webster, Brendan O'Connor; Ingram, David – 1972
Research was conducted to study systematically the comprehension and production of the pronouns "he, she, him, her" in the language of normal and linguistically deviant children. The purposes of the study were to: observe the manner in which normal children comprehend and produce these four pronouns, in terms of both their use and their…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Delayed Speech, Distinctive Features (Language)