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Trione, Verdun – Instructor, 1972
Teachers should not try to impose on children the language of adults, but they can provide models for them to grow naturally into as they become adults. The child knows his language when he comes to school, and the teacher should try to build on what he knows, not blunder into opposition to it. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Arts
Greenlee, Mel – 1973
A study was conducted of the development of consonant clusters in the phonology of a native English-speaking child. His progress was studied over a year and a half period, in three one-month segments. His speech was recorded by tape and transcribed. Techniques used to elicit consonant clusters included real word imitation, imitation of nonsense…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
Clark, Eve V. – 1974
To the question of whether Chomsky's hypothesized Language Acquisition Device (LAD) in young children is an adequate and feasible model of language acquisition, this paper answers that LAD should be reformulated so as to include semantics; that "informant presentation" rather than "text presentation" is responsible for language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes

Dore, John; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Two transitional phases in the child's early language development are described; the first occurs between prelinguistic vocalization and one-word speech and the second between one-word and patterned speech. Cognitive, linguistic and affective inputs to the acquisition of reference and syntax are discussed in the light of the transitional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition

Antinucci, Francesco; Miller, Ruth – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Investigates the development of past tense expressions in the speech of children from 1.6 to 2.6. It is shown that this development depends crucially on the child's cognitive construction of the time dimension, as described by Piaget. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition

Schachter, Frances Fuchs; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Interpersonal functions of everyday caretaker speech usage are examined when addressed to toddlers, threes and fours. Results support hypotheses derived from Piagetian theory concerning early developments in ego-differentiation. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Observation

Vogel, Irene – 1975
Many researchers have assumed that adult bilinguals have separate systems for their two languages. Such an assumption raises interesting questions about how the two languages are acquired in the case of a child learning two languages simultaneously. This study attempts to determine whether the two languages are acquired separately right from the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English
Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics. – 1974
This panel discussion seeks to determine the role of babbling and of nonlinguistic behavior in language acquisition. A central question is whether there is a continuity between babbling and speech. The paper presents the views that: the infant's ability to assimilate and adapt to his environment antedates the maturation of his visual and auditory…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics
Ramey, Craig T. – 1971
This paper deals with three areas concerning early vocal development: (1) review and critique of existing experimental evidence suggesting that early vocal behavior has the properties of an operant response, (2) speculations concerning the role of non-verbal vocal behavior in early psychological development, and (3) suggestions for future…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Hypothesis Testing, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition

Howe, Christine J. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
Recent attempts to classify the meanings of two-word utterances expressed by young children have assumed that children always intend one of the meanings adults might express. This paper challenges that assumption and suggests an alternative approach to determining the meaning of these utterances. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Hardy, William G. – Acta Symbolica, 1972
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Science
Lane, Harlan; Sheppard, William – 1965
Traditional research methods of recording infant verbal behavior, namely, descriptions by a single observer transcribing the utterances of a single infant in a naturalistic setting, have been inadequate to provide data necessary for modern linguistic analyses. The Center for Research on Language and Language Behavior has undertaken to correct this…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Electronic Equipment, Infant Behavior, Infants
Ferguson, Charles A. – 1976
Selected aspects of early phonological development are described, and eight important characteristics are suggested. It is held that the child plays a highly active, creative role in the acquisition process. The child's early vocables constitute a connecting link between babbling and adult-modeled speech; the child's phonological systems for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Kuhl, Patricia K.; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Science, 1982
Indicates that 18- to 20-month-old infants can detect the correspondence between auditorially and visually perceived speech; that is, they manifest some of the components related to lip-reading phenomena in adults. This demonstration of the bimodal perception of speech in infancy has important implications for social, cognitive, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Bellugi, Ursula – 1965
The verbal behavior of three children was sampled. The samples were analyzed to obtain a picture of three stages of the children's language development, specifically the interrogative structures. Each stage was about 4- or 5-months long, starting at the 18th to 28th month, depending upon the child's level of linguistic ability. The interrogative…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Preschool Children