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Choi, Soonja – Journal of Child Language, 1988
Analysis of negative utterances from English-, French-, and Korean-speaking one- through three-year-olds identified nine distinct semantic/pragmatic categories with a similar developmental order in all three languages. Different patterns were found in the form-function relationship for the different categories. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, English, French
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Choi, Soonja; Gopnik, Alison – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Investigates children's early lexical development in English and Korean and compares caregivers' linguistic input in the two languages. Results indicate that young Korean children use verbs productively with appropriate inflections and that, unlike in English, both verbs and nouns in Korean are dominant categories from the single-word stage. (39…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
Caregiver Input in English and Korean: Use of Nouns and Verbs in Book-Reading and Toy-Play Contexts.
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Choi, Soonja – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Investigates structural and pragmatic aspects of caregiver input in English and Korean that relate to the early development of nouns and verbs. Twenty mothers in each language were asked to interact with their children in two contexts: Book-reading and toy-play. Data suggest that systematic comparisons of caregiver input within and across…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English