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Rowland, Caroline F.; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Analyzed naturalistic data from 12 2- to 3-year-old children and their mothers to assess the relative contribution of complexity and input frequency to wh-question acquisition. Results suggests that the relationship between acquisition and complexity may be a by-product of the high correlation between complexity and the frequency with which…
Descriptors: Caregiver Role, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Mothers
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And Others; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Investigates the relationship between observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition in preschool children. Results indicate that while the two measures are correlated, there are systematic quantitative differences between them, reflecting a combination of checklist, maternal-report and observational sampling biases. (22…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Language, Correlation, Data Analysis
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Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Examines the relationship between maternal-report measures of referential vocabulary and observational measures of referential vocabulary and usage in 8 first-born middle-class children at 50 and 100 words. Results indicate that, although this measure can be reasonably reliable, such measures tend to exaggerate the relative importance of common…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Hebrew, Longitudinal Studies
Joseph, Kate L.; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Many recent generativist models attribute grammatical knowledge to young children on the basis that children's language patterns the same way as the target adult language. It has been proposed that the child acquires this knowledge early on in development by a process of parameter setting. Wexler (1996) presents the "Very Early Parameter Setting…
Descriptors: French, Morphemes, Language Usage, Grammar