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Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2013
In this article we report two studies: a detailed longitudinal analysis of errors in "wh"-questions from six German-learning children (age 2 ; 0-3 ; 0) and an analysis of the prosodic characteristics of "wh"-questions in German child-directed speech. The results of the first study demonstrate that German-learning children…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Young Children, German, Language Acquisition
Salomo, Dorothe; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Young children answer many questions every day. The extent to which they do this in an adult-like way -- following Grice's Maxim of Quantity by providing the requested information, no more no less -- has been studied very little. In an experiment, we found that two-, three- and four-year-old children are quite skilled at answering…
Descriptors: Young Children, Questioning Techniques, Responses, Child Psychology
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Lieven, Elena; Behrens, Heike; Speares, Jennifer; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Determined the degree to which a sample of one child's creative utterances related to utterances that the child previously produced. Utterances were intelligible, multi-word utterances produced by the child in a single hour of interaction with her mother. Results suggest the high degree of creativity in early English child language could be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Creativity, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
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Tomasello, Michael; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Compared the conversations of mothers and fathers with their children, focusing special attention on breakdown-repair sentences. It was found, overall, that children and secondary caregiver fathers experienced more communicative breakdowns than did children and primary caregiver mothers. (23 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems