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Peer reviewedTrabasso, Tom; Nickels, Margret – Discourse Processes, 1992
Studies the construction of coherent narrations of events in a picture storybook by children and adults. Applies a causal network discourse analysis. Analyzes the structure and content of the network representation of the main character. Reveals differences in content and structure of the narratives. (HB)
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Karadsheh, Randa – 1991
Children's understanding of metaphorical language at different ages is explored. Comprehension of sensory, functional, and psychological metaphors was measured with a sentence completion task on kindergarten, second grade, fourth grade, and college subjects. Children's understanding of the metaphors was ordered from best to worst: sensory,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Elementary Education
Direct linkRavid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The paper examines the nominal lexicon in later language acquisition as a window on linguistic knowledge and usage across childhood and adolescence. The paper presents a psycholinguistically motivated and cognitively grounded analysis of the distribution of ten semantic noun categories (the Noun Scale) across development, modality, and genre.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Semantics, Nouns, Linguistics
Download full textOtsu, Yukio, Ed. – Mita Working Papers in Psycholinguistics, 1993
This volume of working papers in psycholinguistics, from the "MITA Psycholinguistics Circle", contains the following articles: "Some Problems in the Acquisition of Derived Nouns" (Mika Endo); "World Knowledge in Children's Sentence Comprehension" (Yuki Hirose); "Examining the Including and Excluding Roles of…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Children, College Students, Elementary Education
Gass, Susan M., Ed.; Madden, Carolyn G., Ed. – 1985
This collection of conference papers includes: "When Does Teacher Talk Work as Input?"; "Cultural Input in Second Language Learning"; "Skilled Variation in a Kindergarten Teacher's Use of Foreigner Talk"; "Teacher-Pupil Interaction in Second Language Development"; "Foreigner Talk in the University…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conference Proceedings
O Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – TEANGA: Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 1981
Papers from three conferences on applied linguistics include the following: "Evaluating Language Success in an Irish Context" (D. P. O Baoill); "Facilitation of Language Development in the Deaf Child" (M. Nicholas Griffey, Sr.); "Observations on Thematic Interference Between Irish and English" (M. Filppula); "A…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Perception, Bilingualism, Children
Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers on bilingual education covers these topics: (1) second-language acquisition theories relevant to bilingual education; (2) the age factor in native language maintenance and in the development of English proficiency of overseas Japanese children; (3) applying the Cummins language proficiency model to students who acquire…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
