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Horgan, Dianne – 1976
A study was conducted to determine whether the child expresses linguistic knowledge during the single-word period. The order of mention in 65 sets of successive single-word utterances from five children at Stage 1, two to four years old, were analyzed. To elicit speech, the children were shown line drawings representing such situations as animate…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Devito, Joseph A. – 1970
This bibliography on the acquisition and development of speech and language lists, in alphabetical order by author, 423 books and journal articles published between 1937 and 1970. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.] (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Language, Concept Formation, Kindergarten
Liberman, Isabelle Y.; And Others – 1973
Speech research suggests why phoneme segmentation is more difficult than syllable segmentation. This study provides direct evidence of a developmental ordering of syllable and phoneme segmentation abilities in the young child. By means of a task which required preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children to tap out the number of segments in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Phonemes
Gathercole, Virginia C. – 1979
Two children's spontaneous utterances containing the comparative structure are examined for their semantic content. Many comparatives are found to encode the notion "A has property X," and this use is often found in reference to the presence of X to an extreme, rather than a non-extreme, extent. The uses of the comparative are analyzed…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Error Analysis (Language)
Allen, George D. – 1976
This study discusses the nature of rhythm as it may apply to speech and language, reviews some of the literature on the development of rhythm, and presents some thoughts relating these findings to specific examples of children's speech. There is evidence to support the view that one need not look at the exact rhythm of any utterance, but only for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Intonation, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Macken, Marlys A. – 1976
Data are presented from one subject (J) that show a gradual development of the complexity of words in terms of syllable structure and degree of phonetic similarity of co-occurring consonants. During the age range of 1;9 to 2;6, J's data show a highly systematic progression of stages, each characterized by fewer restrictions on the number, order,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Imitation
Clumeck, Harold – 1977
The first part of this bibliography contains annotations of articles on the acquisition of voice onset time (VOT) as the marker of a phonological contrast, that is, the studies concern children who are already developing a phonological system. The most common questions are the following: (1) When children begin to produce initial stops, how are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition
Edwards, Mary Louise – 1979
The research reported here was carried out to help establish the normal course of fricative acquisition as a basis for comparisons with abnormal development. Three questions concerning phonological processes were investigated as part of a larger study of fricative acquisition: (1) the phonological processes that underlie children's fricative…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Language Acquisition
Clark, Eve V. – 1974
This paper studies aspects of the conceptual basis for language acquisition, with a focus on the perceptual-cognitive skills used to assign meanings to words. A first assumption is that the correspondence between adult and child perceptual features allows for early communication. Apparently, in the first year, naming is characterized by…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Gilbert, John H. V.; Johnson, Carolyn E. – 1976
This paper reports the results of a preliminary study dealing with the ways in which children between ages 6 and 7 organize spoken language. In particular, aspects of the temporal and segmental structure of polysyllabic English words containing the syllable C/jul/, as in the word "pediculous," are dealt with. This study is based on the assumption…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development
Sinclair-de Zwart, Hermine – 1974
This paper offers some ideas on the types of behavior that can be considered precursors to language and that also lay the foundations for logic, mathematics, physics, etc. The paper posits the problem of whether a theory of language must be formulated before one can formulate a theory of language acquisition, or whether the reverse is true. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Child Language
Crow, Cheney – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1990
A case study analyzed the babbling and speech production of an infant, aged 20 to 24 months, whose family members spoke Portuguese, English, and French interchangeably. Focus was on vowel production, choice of lexicon, and the relationship between babbling and speech in the interaction of his languages. The child's utterances were recorded in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Urwin, Cathy – 1979
Literature on the sighted child suggests that blind children might be delayed in language acquisition and/or restricted in the semantic content of their utterances and in the communicative intentions they express. This study questions the use of guidelines appropriate for monitoring sighted children in the study of language development in blind…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
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Rutherford, R. W., Ed.; Wears, M., Ed. – 1969
Transcriptions of recorded conversations of nine-year-old French children are analyzed and presented in this comparative word count. The actual count of the 55,588 word corpus is arranged alphabetically and contrasted with selected, identical words found in the Francais Fondamental word list. Proper nouns are listed separately at the end of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Computational Linguistics, French, Language Patterns
Keenan, Elinor Ochs; And Others – 1976
Two major strategies for linguistically encoding an idea or proposition are suggested. The first strategy involves encoding an idea in the space of a single utterance, while the second strategy conveys the proposition through a sequence of two or more utterances. The tendency has been to focus on discourse as a composite of sentences (the first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
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