Descriptor
| Infants | 2 |
| Language Acquisition | 2 |
| Toddlers | 2 |
| Child Language | 1 |
| Cognitive Development | 1 |
| Communication Skills | 1 |
| Comprehension | 1 |
| Developmental Stages | 1 |
| Early Experience | 1 |
| Expressive Language | 1 |
| Interviews | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Tomasello, Michael | 2 |
| Akhtar, Nameera | 1 |
| Mervis, Carolyn B. | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Opinion Papers | 2 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| MacArthur Communicative… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) represent a breakthrough in measuring early language production. Nevertheless, the CDIs' word comprehension component may not be a valid measure, because parents report too high a word comprehension ability for their children. Suggests that administering the CDIs to parents in an interview…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Infants, Interviews, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; Akhtar, Nameera – Cognition, 2003
Presents evidence that the supposed paradox in which infants find abstract patterns in speech-like stimuli whereas even some preschoolers struggle to find abstract syntactic patterns within meaningful language is no paradox. Asserts that all research evidence shows that young children's syntactic constructions become abstract in a piecemeal…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Developmental Stages
