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A Case Study of a Baby's Language Acquisition

Pages 344-361 | Published online: 16 Jun 2015

  • Of course, Werner F. Leopold's study of his daughter's bilingual-speech development, Speech Development of a Bilingual Child: A Linguist's Record, 4 vols. (Evanston, 111., 1939–1949) remains a classic.
  • A similar activity involving a small boy's practice at night before going to sleep is described by Ruth Hirsch Weir in Language in the Crib (The Hague, 1962), pp. 21–26.
  • R. W. and Joy Buck Albright, “Application of Descriptive Linguistics to Child Language,” Journal of Speech Research, I (1958), 257–261.
  • Jean Berko, “The Child's Learning of English Morphology,” Psycholinguistics: A Book of Readings, Ed. Sol Saporta (New York, 1961), pp. 359–375.
  • Roger S. Brown, “Linguistic Determinism and the Part of Speech,” Psycholinguistics, pp. 503–509.
  • Colin Fraser, Ursula Bellugi, and Roger Brown, “Control of Grammar in Imitation, Comprehension, and Production,” Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, II (1963), 121–135.
  • Ursula Bellugi and Roger Brown, eds., The Acquisition of Language, Child Development Publications of the Society for Research in Child Development (Lafayette, Ind., 1964).
  • Half an hour of speech was recorded at the age of 28 months; 3J hours, at 31 months.
  • Dawn has been exposed to Texas German through her contacts with a neighbor and with a baby-sitter.
  • Archibald A. Hill, Introduction to Linguistic Structures (New York, 1958, pp. 13–46 and 62–67).
  • Hill, pp. 138–165.
  • No notes were kept during the three intervening months.
  • Note the unusual stress pattern and the phonetic separation into two words. This treatment occurred with both [má mˆy] and for quite some time.
  • No notes were kept during the intervening months.

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