Urges teachers to leave an expressive domain for the young child's writing, in which the audience is the young child. (DD)

Indicates that the teaching of rhyming words is the most efficient initial presentation of consonant-vowel-consonant words for beginning readers. (RB)

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)

The acquisition of speech in the infant is discussed, and the hypothesis advanced that the maturing infant gains access to the more elaborated communication system of his language community through his total communicative experience with more developed human interactants. (Author/RM)

This research disputes the traditional position on babbling by showing that the phonetic content of babbled utterances exhibits many of the same preferences for certain kinds of phonetic elements and sequences that have been found in the production of meaningful speech by children in later stages of language development. (Author/RM)

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)

The speech of 11-year-old children in different socioeconomic groups, was analyzed across a range of communicative tasks. On most "traditional" measures, consistent group differences did not appear. Significant differences were found on measures directly derived from the "planning principles" said by Bernstein to underlie restricted and elaborated…

This case study of two Latvian children attempts to show how the parental terms for"mummy" and "daddy" in Latvian are acquired, paying particular attention to the changing relationship between the input and output forms during the acquisition process. (Author/RM)

This article deals with an important question in the area of developmental psycholinguistics. It studies the conditions for a presyntactcic utterance to become a "canonical sentence" or "canonical utterance" at the stage of the two-word combinations. Two main points are highlighted: (1) how a prelinguistic utterance between 9-12 months of age can…

Presents the results of a study of attention as a factor in children's natural and experimental acquisition of articulatory behavior. (TO)

Presents a review of various studies on the acquisition, nature, and function of language coding in children's learning. (TO)

Adapted from "Work in Progress" n5, 1972, Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. (DD)

Examines the influence of the situational environment on language use in the classroom. (RL)

Questions the purpose of having students "write" in class as a standard practice at the conclusion of a unit of instruction. (RL)