Caregiver Speech and Childrens' Use of Nouns Versus Verbs: A Comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin.

Tardif, Twila; Shatz, Marilyn; Naigles, Letitia

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ERIC Number: EJ559645

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Caregiver Speech and Childrens' Use of Nouns Versus Verbs: A Comparison of English, Italian, and Mandarin.

Tardif, Twila; Shatz, Marilyn; Naigles, Letitia

Journal of Child Language, v24 n3 p535-65 Oct 1997

Looks at naturalistic samples of adult-to-child speech to determine whether variations in the input are consistent with reported variations in the proportions of nouns and verbs in children's early vocabularies. Naturalistic speech samples from English-, Italian-, and Mandarin-speaking children and their caregivers were examined. (Author/JL)

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Italian, Linguistic Input, Mandarin Chinese, Nouns, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Verbs, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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