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Zapf, Jennifer A.; Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This paper reports on partial knowledge in two-year-old children's learning of the regular English plural. In Experiments 1 and 2, children were presented with one kind and its label and then were either presented with two of that same kind (A[right arrow]AA) or the initial picture next to a very different thing (A[right arrow]AB). The children in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nouns, English, Language Acquisition

Sandhofer, Catherine M.; Smith, Linda B.; Luo, Jun – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Offers additional means of evaluating parent speech by examining frequencies of individual nouns, verbs, and descriptors, and examining the learning task presented to children. Study one examines transcripts from the CHILDES database of English-speaking parents' speech to children at five developmental levels; study two examines 50 transcripts of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Contrastive Linguistics, Databases, Developmental Stages