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Vivas, Dolores M. – 1979
A common assumption underlying cross-linquistic studies in child language is that the comparison of any feature in unrelated languages may simplify semantic-grammatical complexities in a way that studies on a single language cannot. This paper begins by discussing the order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes in Spanish by four…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Grammar
Fordham Univ., Bronx, NY. Graduate School of Education. – 1978
This is one of three volumes of instructional games devised to further the development of childrens' listening, logical thinking, problem solving, and effective oral communication skills. The games are designed to create a relaxed, informal setting in which teachers can encourage and support children's natural speech and provide language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Games
Brady, Margaret – 1978
The narrative performances of Navajo children were examined to determine the ways in which the skills of competently structuring a narrative are informally learned within the peer group. Ten- and eleven-year-old Navajo children, living near Window Rock, Arizona, were evaluated in telling stories about the most traditional figures of Navajo belief,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Folk Culture
Tollefson, James W. – 1976
Investigators agree that mothers employ a variety of request forms and that children seem to be able to respond to these forms with a remarkable degree of accuracy. It is suggested that the speech of mothers to their children is filled with requests which are really not requests at all. It is shown that many of what appear to be adult requests to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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
Schwartz, Richard G.; Folger, M. Karen – 1977
This study proposes that children's phonological behavior at Stage VI of sensorimotor development may show markedly decreased variability compared to children at Stage V. According to Piaget, sensorimotor development during Stage VI is distinguished from preceding stages by the onset of representational ability and ability to form mental…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Newport, Elissa L.; Gleitman, Henry – 1977
This article hypothesizes that language repetition of young children (in the sense used by Kobashigawa and Snow) does not help language acquisition. The evidence comes from the results of a prior study in which no indication was found that mothers who repeat themselves a great deal have children who acquire language more quickly. However,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
DeStefano, Johanna S.; And Others – 1980
Language development, including literacy learning (reading and writing) was studied in a first grade classroom in a culture-in-contact situation. The language behavior of three boys--one mainstream culture member, another from black inner-city culture, and a third from Appalachian culture--and the language of a teacher from mainstream culture were…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
De Villiers, Peter A.; De Villiers, Jill G. – 1979
This investigation studied the development of the form and function of negative sentences, and how it relates to the input on negation that children receive from their parents. The data came from three children: two from a previous study (Bellugi) and one the son of the investigators. A detailed analysis was carried out of the syntactic form and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deep Structure, Function Words, Language Acquisition
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

Peck, Sabrina – 1977
Play sessions of two Mexican children (one five and one eight years old) with English-speaking friends were recorded and the use of language play was examined. Language play is viewed as a non-literal, rule-bound use of language that children engage in for its own sake, either cooperatively or competitively. Practice opportunities and children's…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1975
This is the first of a series of three volumes containing papers from a bilingual symposium held in 1975. Presentations and discussion at the symposium dealt primarily with suggestions for research which linguists should undertake to assist bilingual programs. This volume contains the following papers: "Developmental Psycholinguistics," by Deborah…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
Sinha, Chris; Walkerdine, V. – 1974
This paper reports the findings of an investigation into the development of the use and understanding of locative and temporal prepositions in 94 children aged from 18 months to 8 years. The research was carried out as part of the Project "Language Development in Pre-School Children," directed by Gordon Wells, at the University of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Klann, Gisela – 1975
This is a study of linguistic variability among social levels in West Germany and of the problems associated with doing such an analysis. The data, ordered according to sex and social levels, were collected from young children retelling narratives heard on tapes. The report represents a comprehensive study of the children's syntactic performance…
Descriptors: Child Language, Generative Grammar, German, Grammar
Sharpless, Elizabeth A. – 1975
The hypothesis that the acquisition order of relational words directly reflects the complexity of these words in formal linguistic analysis was tested for the singular, non-neuter person pronouns of English. Data on the development of comprehension of these pronouns gathered in two conversational situations, child as person addressed and child as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Concept Formation