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Macken, Marlys A.; Barton, David – 1977
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of the acquisition of the voicing contrast in American-English work-initial stop consonants, as revealed through instrumental analysis of voice onset time characteristics. Four monolingual children were recorded at approximately two week intervals, beginning when the children were about 1;6. Data provide…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language), Imitation
Macken, Marlys A. – 1975
The data in this study are taken from an on-going research project investigating the development of the production of intervocalic consonants in Mexican Spanish. The total project includes both longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of forty children and uses both naturalistic observation and experimental methods. The data discussed here is from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Consonants, Imitation
Weeks, Thelma E. – 1978
One of the most remarkable aspects of the babbling of some babies is that it is produced with intonation contours that sound very much like adult sentence melodies. This study reviews the literature and examines longitudinal data collected from seven children. Some of the non-adult-like syntactic uses made of intonation by children for…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infant Behavior, Infants, Intonation
Petty, Walter T., Ed. – 1967
This collection of six articles on oral language is a product of the cooperative efforts of the National Conference on Research in English, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the International Reading Association, the Association for Childhood Education International, and the National Council of Teachers of English. It is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Environmental Influences
Leclercq, Janine, Comp. – 1969
These transcriptions of conversation illustrate linguistic behavior and interests of the average ten-year-old French child. Patterned after a previously transcribed series of conversations of nine-year olds, the 14 dialogues in this collection serve as a linguistic corpus suitable for educational research and textbook development. A graphic code…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Interests, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Petty, Walter T., Ed. – 1967
This collection of six articles on oral language is a product of the cooperative efforts of the National Conference on Research in English, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the International Reading Association, the Association for Childhood Education International, and the National Council of Teachers of English. It is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Environmental Influences
Clumeck, Harold – 1977
This is a longitudinal study of a child's acquisition of Mandarin phonology between the ages of 1;2 and 2;8. During this period, the child was much less verbal than many children reported in other child phonology studies. The study consists of two parts. The first part is a description of the child's "proto-language," in which he used…
Descriptors: Child Language, Chinese, Cognitive Development, Imitation
Bates, Elizabeth; And Others – 1979
A study is reported relevant to the relationship between first words learned by children and gestural symbolization under a variety of contextual conditions. It is part of a larger longitudinal study of 32 children at 10, 13, 20, and 27 months of age. The children were seen in three standardized situations for eliciting gestural and vocal symbols:…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Body Language, Child Language, Cognitive Development
Vivas, Dolores M. – 1979
A common assumption underlying cross-linquistic studies in child language is that the comparison of any feature in unrelated languages may simplify semantic-grammatical complexities in a way that studies on a single language cannot. This paper begins by discussing the order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes in Spanish by four…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Grammar
Snyder, Lynn S. – 1976
This investigation studied the performance of fifteen normal and fifteen language-disabled children on experimental pragmatic tasks and on a standardized Piagetian measure of sensorimotor intelligence. The children were matched for mean length of utterance, all subjects performing at the holophrastic level. A series of experimental measures was…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
Schwartz, Richard G.; Folger, M. Karen – 1977
This study proposes that children's phonological behavior at Stage VI of sensorimotor development may show markedly decreased variability compared to children at Stage V. According to Piaget, sensorimotor development during Stage VI is distinguished from preceding stages by the onset of representational ability and ability to form mental…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Leclercq, Janine, Comp. – 1966
These transcriptions of children living in a suburb of Paris represent and illustrate linguistic behavior and interests of the average nine-year-old French child. Seventy-nine children in groups of three were recorded in 30-minute periods of free conversation and 10-minute periods of play. Analysis reveals more than 30 centers of interest which…
Descriptors: Child Language, Childhood Interests, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Muma, John Ronald – 1967
Since speech pathologists are interested in the role nonfluent behavior may play in the onset or development of stuttering, this study compared the linguistic behavior of 17 fluent four-year-old children to that of 17 nonfluent children similar in age, intelligence, sex, sibling status, race, socioeconomic status, and education. The aspects of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Williams, Frederick, Ed.; And Others – 1970
This study is concerned with misarticulated speech sounds of children and the phonetic realization of these sounds. The articulation errors of 384 standard-English-speaking school children were analyzed in speech samples obtained by the National Speech and Hearing Survey and were samples of both free speech and of performance on the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Development, Child Language, Elementary School Students
Ferguson, Charles A. – 1975
Every speech community has a baby talk register (BT) of phonological, grammatical, and lexical features regarded as primarily appropriate for addressing young children and also for other displaced or extended uses. Much BT is analyzable as derived from normal adult speech (AS) by such simplifying processes as reduction, substitution, assimilation,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar
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