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Nouns and Verbs in Parent Input in American Sign Language during Interaction among Deaf Dyads
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Fieldsteel, Zoe; Bottoms, Aiken; Lieberman, Amy M. – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Parent input during interaction with young children varies across languages and contexts with regard to the relative number of words from different lexical categories, particularly nouns and verbs. Previous work has focused on spoken language input. Little is known about the lexical composition of parent input in American Sign Language (ASL). We…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Context Effect
NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings: Education and Language Edition (Athens, Greece, August 19, 2019). Book 1. Volume 2
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NORDSCI, 2019
This volume includes two sections of the 2019 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; and (2) Language and Linguistics. Education and Educational Research includes 11 papers covering scientific topics in the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy of education, educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Foreign Students
The Development of Syntactic Subjects in Portuguese-Speaking Children.
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Valian, Virginia; Eisenberg, Zena – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the spontaneous speech of Portuguese-speaking two-year olds in natural conversation with Portuguese-speaking adults. The children were separated into three groups based on Mean Length of Utterance in Words (MLUW). The children in the highest-MLUW group almost perfectly matched the adult speakers on every measure. (37 references)…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis