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Download full textEchols, Catharine H. – 1992
A study of infant language acquisition investigated the possibility that perceptual or attentional tendencies may guide early word learning by directing infants' attention in linguistically relevant ways. In the experiment, infants aged 9 to 13 months watched a puppet show; with some children, sentences labeling either the objects (noun-frame…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Language, Infants
Wootten, Janet; And Others – 1979
The use of "wh" forms in questions asked by four children was recorded from age 22 to 36 months, and analyzed. In the emergence of "wh" forms, the children first asked identifying questions with "what" and "who," followed in order by (1) "wh" pronominal questions which ask for major sentence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Infants
Naigles, Letitia; And Others – 1987
Two studies investigated whether young children acquiring verbs at an exceptional rate can use the syntactic structure of familiar and unfamiliar verbs to make conjectures about some aspect of the meanings of those verbs. The preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek, 1981) was used to set up a naturalistic pairing of scene and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Hypothesis Testing
