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Deacon, S. Helene; Bryant, Peter – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The spelling of words in English is governed in part by the morphemes that make them up. This study examines the strength of children's knowledge of the role of root morphemes in spelling, specifically focusing on whether it can withstand interference by phonological changes. A total of 75 children between seven and nine years of age were given…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphemes, Educational Practices, Children

Deutsch, Werner; Koster, Jan – 1982
The acquisition of two types of anaphora, reflexive and non-reflexive personal pronouns, was investigated. It was hypothesized that the two types of anaphora are acquired at different developmental stages. The three experiments involved Dutch children of age 6 and 7 and adults. Interpretations of sentences containing third person reflexive…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Language Acquisition, Pronouns

Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Presents a study of the effects of training 18 subjects, 28-40 months, in the use of two-word subject-verb utterances. The study focused on: (1) the number of different semantic relations underlying the subject-verb form in which the child is trained, and (2) the relationship between the semantic relations and ongoing, experimentally manipulated…
Descriptors: Grammar, Preschool Children, Role Models, Semantics
SAMUELS, S. JAY – 1967
IN THIS ARTICLE THE AUTHOR GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS DURING THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF VOLUME 34, NUMBER 2 OF "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH" IN APRIL 1964. DISCUSSED ARE (1) LEARNING AND NATIVISTIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, (2) EMPIRICAL FINDINGS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS,…
Descriptors: Language, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistics
DuBose, Rebecca F. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Infants, Language Acquisition

Mueller, Edward; And Others – Child Development, 1977
Verbal interactions of three 2-year-old boys attending a play group were analyzed from videotapes made approximately 8 months apart. During this period, rates of interaction increased significantly, speakers learned to select message content more appropriate to the listener, and participants learned to watch each other more often. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Infants, Social Relations, Verbal Communication

Diaz, Rafael M. – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Responds to W. Frawley's and J. Lantolf's comments on the Frauenglass and Diaz study concerning the interaction between private speech and cognition. Argues that Vygotsky's theory predicts a positive effect on children's problem solving activity. (HOD)
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology

Johnson, Cynthia J. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study designed to explore the nature of early use of two forms of the perfect--the present perfect and the present perfect progressive--by children over three years old. Three factors were found to influence children's selective imitation and paraphrasing of the perfect: verb form, semantic sense of the perfect, and duration of the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Tenses (Grammar), Time Perspective

Sudhalter, Vicki; Braine, Martin D. S. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a study that tried to answer the following: (1) Are the passives of all actional verbs equally easy to understand? (2) Are the passives of all experiential verbs in a child's vocabulary about equally hard to understand? (3) Does comprehension of passives differ from verb to verb in a category? (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Language Acquisition, Language Processing

Garnica, Olga K. – Theory Into Practice, 1975
This article presents a wholistic picture of the major factors in the language learning process. (RC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Language, Language Acquisition
Farr, Beverly – Viewpoints, 1972
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Reading Ability, Reading Development, Speech Communication
Day, David E.; Nurss, Joanne R. – Elem Sch J, 1970
The study indicated some superiority of the Bereiter-Engelmann Program, a structured, behavioristic method, over traditional language instruction methods. (MH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Programs, Program Evaluation

Wozniak, R. H. – Human Development, 1972
Soviet investigation of the development of verbal inhibition of preseverative manual behavior are reviewed. Non-soviet investigations of verbal-manual interaction are considered in relation to the Soviet view of the development of voluntary behavior; and it is argued, on the basis of this evidence, that the Soviet position need not stand or fall…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Motor Development, Physical Development

Falk, Julia S. – College English, 1979
Draws implications for the teaching and learning of writing from the language acquisition of children, based on the contention that human capacities for acquiring language do not change qualitatively as people mature. (DD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Higher Education, Language Acquisition, Verbal Development

Waxman, Sandra R.; Markow, Dana B. – Cognitive Psychology, 1995
Three experiments involving 128 infants studied whether and how novel words influence object categorization in 12- to 13- month-old infants. Data revealed that a linkage between words and object categories emerged early enough to be a guide in infants' efforts to map word meanings. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Infants, Knowledge Level, Verbal Development