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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's sociolinguistics skills, ability to sequence verbal expressions, analogical abilities, and learning and application of the principle for nouns; Basil…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language
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
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 12 titles deal with the following topics: correlates of reading achievement in Mexican-American children; Latino communication patterns; the semantic distance and semantic judgment of English monolingual and Spanish/English…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingualism
Pike, Ruth – 1976
Sixty-five grade 5-6 children were tested on a verbal recall task involving material of varying semantic and syntactic content. There was no difference between best and poorest readers in their performance on random lists of words, but there were clear differences on meaningful sentences and on syntactically well-formed but semantically anomalous…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Elementary Education, English
Child Development Associate Consortium, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1973
This colloquim report contains papers submitted to the Child Development Associate (CDA) Consortium by a panel of 12 black educators who represented different disciplines and differing black perspectives. Panelists discussed the education of preschool teachers with specific reference to competency areas, training programs for preschool staff,…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Studies, Black Youth
Evard, Beth L.; McGrady, Harold J. – 1974
The development of local norms using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was part of a larger study, the purpose of which was to identify the percentage of Arizona school children having a handicap. The first step in this part of the project, which involved screening for communication disorders, was the selection of tests to identify…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Child Language, Cultural Influences
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1970
This publication reviews significant research in 1969 in the field of oral language in early childhood and reading. In general the paper discusses only those areas where these three topics intersect; thus detailed treatment is given only to language in early childhood education and language in relation to reading. Initial comments deal with…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education
Alatis, James E., Ed. – 1970
This report contains 23 papers dealing with various aspects of bilingualism: E. Haugen, "Linguistics and Dialinguistics"; R.J. DiPietro, "The Discovery of Universals in Multilingualism"; J. Macnamara, "Bilingualism and Thought"; J. A. Fishman, "The Politics of Bilingual Education"; V. John, "Cognitive Development in the Bilingual Child"; D. Hymes,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Arabic, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Tri-University Project in Elementary Education. – 1968
This document contains reports of individual research and action projects of the Tri-University Project in Elementary Education. In the research section of the document, (1) Laura Chase describes working with two children whose capacity to use oral language successfully was stunted by their experience in home and society, (2) Dorothy Troendle…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Child Language, Childrens Games, Cognitive Processes
Ulibarri, Horacio – 1969
This project, carried out in 1968-1969, undertook as its main purposes (1) to review the research that has been conducted on bilingual education; (2) to obtain the recommendations on bilingual education from those persons who have been actively engaged in working with this problem; (3) to conduct on-site visitations to see at first hand programs…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Biculturalism
Wells, Gordon – 1973
"How does a child come to be able to relate his own experience to the formal means of communicating about that experience in the language to which he is exposed?" The author maintains that the innate predispositions that underlie the development of the cognitive ability to organize and structure experience also underlie the acquisition of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
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Reger, Zita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Three discourse-related formal aspects of model-imitation pairs were analyzed longitudinally in successive samples from two Hungarian children. Results revealed an unbroken developmental trend leading to lexically coherent conversational replies and that imitation aided the children in learning the lexicon, making phonological approximations of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Grammatical Acceptability, Hungarian
Moerk, Ernst L. – 2000
This book provides a summary of past and cutting-edge research on the acquisition of language by young children. It lends support to the behavioralist paradigm of language acquisition, namely, that maternal rewards and corrections should be integrated with perceptual, cognitive, and social learning conceptualizations in a skill-learning approach…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Cultural Differences, Epistemology
Tobin, Michael – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
The vocabularies of five- to eight-year-old blind children were sampled to help develop a graded series of braille reading books. Lists of words in alphabetic and frequency order are presented. (See TM 504 595 for availability). (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading
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Oney, Banu; Durgunoglu, Aydin Yucesan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Investigates early literacy acquisition in Turkish with its phonologically transparent orthography and regular letter-sound correspondences. Findings reveal that such orthography fosters the early development of word recognition skills and that phonological awareness contributes to word recognition in the early stages of reading acquisition. (33…
Descriptors: Child Language, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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