Children Learn from Speech Not Addressed to Them: The Case of Personal Pronouns.

Oshima-Takane, Yuriko

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ERIC Number: EJ367528

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Children Learn from Speech Not Addressed to Them: The Case of Personal Pronouns.

Oshima-Takane, Yuriko

Journal of Child Language, v15 n1 p95-108 Feb 1988

A modeling experiment, conducted to determine if children benefit from observing speech not addressed to them in discovering the use of first and second pronouns, suggested that children even less than two years of age can attend to and learn from speech not addressed to them. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Modeling (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Pronouns, Speech Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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