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Children -- Language

Here are entered works which discuss child language in general or within an educational framework, including general characteristics and usage. Works which discuss from the linguistic or psycholinguistic viewpoint the process of the acquisition of the native language in children are entered under the heading Language acquisition.

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• The symbolic process and its integration in children; a study in social psychology (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd.;, 1928), by John F. Markey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The symbolic process and its integration in children; a study in social psychology (Harcourt, Brace and company;, 1928), by John F. Markey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cognitive development in young children : a report for teachers (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National Institute of Education, 1976), by Nancy Ewald Jackson, Philip S. Dale, and Halbert B. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A basic vocabulary of elementary school children (The Macmillan Company, 1945), by Henry Daniel Rinsland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slow to talk : a guide for teachers and parents of children with delayed language development. By Jane Beasley. (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956), by Jane Beasley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language ability in the middle grades of the elementary school; final report to the U. S. Office of Education, Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. ([Berkeley?], 1961), by Berkeley. School of Education University of California (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language and the discovery of reality; a developmental psychology of cognition. (Random House, 1961), by Joseph Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nutidssprog Hos börn og voxne. (Nordisk forlag, 1916), by Otto Jespersen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language training in early childhood education (Published for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education by the University of Illinois Press, 1971), by Celia Stendler Lavatelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• How children learn to speak. (Basic Books, 1959), by M. M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• An investigation of the relationships between articulatory development and development of phonetic discrimination and word synthesis ablities in young mentally retarded children and normal children. ([Office of Research in Special Education and Rehabilitation, Syracuse University Research Institute], 1959), by Charles Vincent Mange (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dimensions of children's meaning vocabularies in grades four through twelve. (University of California Press, 1954), by David H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your child's speech : a practical guide for parents for the first five years (Putnam, 1956), by Flora Rheta Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language learnings : kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2. [Teacher's book (American Book Co., 1963), by Matilda Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improving the spoken vocabulary of elementary school children ... (Philadelphia, 1928), by Israel Galter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language arts for today's children. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1954), by National Council of Teachers of English. Commission on the English Curriculum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development and evaluation of a speech improvement program for kindergarten and first grade children. (Lawrence, 1962), by University of Kansas. Speech and Hearing Clinic and Margaret C. Byrne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus dem Leben der Sprache : Versprechen, Kindersprache, Nachahmungstrieb : Festschrift der K.K. Karl-Franzensuniversität in Graz aus Anlass der Jahresfeier am 15. november 1906 (B. Behr, 1908), by Rudolf Meringer and Universität Graz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vocabulary: its measurement and growth (New York, 1939), by Irene Gansl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The environment of three-year-old children. (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1929), by Dorothy Van Alstyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spanish vocabulary of four native Spanish-speaking pre-first-grade children. (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1948), by L. S. Tireman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speech development of a bilingual child; a linguist's record. (Northwestern University, 1939), by Werner F. Leopold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language ability, grades seven, eight, and nine. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1966), by Walter Loban (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The environment of three-year-old children; factors related to intelligence and vocabulary tests (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1929), by Dorothy Van Alstyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first steps in speech training (Expression Company, 1937), by Rodney Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations et réflexions sur le développement de l'intelligence et du langage chez les enfants (A. Picard, 1883), by Emile Egger (page images at HathiTrust)
• An investigation of the development of the sentence and the extent of vocabulary in young children (The University, 1926), by Madorah Elizabeth Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The child with a speech problem. ([For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1964), by United States Children's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language, thought, and personality in infancy and childhood (Basic Books, 1963), by M. M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language, thought, and personality in infancy and childhood (Basic Books, 1964), by M. M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Sprache des Kindes (Zurcher & Furrer, 1903), by Ernst Meumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die entstehung der ersten wortbedeutungen beim kinde, von Ernst Meumann. (W. Engelmann, 1908), by Ernst Meumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Sprache des Kindes : eine Anregung zur Erforschung des Gegenstandes (Günther, 1880), by Fritz Schultze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Sprechenlernen unserer Kinder; nach seiner Entwicklung dargestellt und mit pädagogischen Winken und Ratschlägen Eltern, Lehrern, Kindergärtnerinnen und überhaupt allen, die es mit Erziehung der Kleinen zu tun haben (F. Brandstetter, 1905), by E. Schädel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le langage enfantin acquisition du Serbe et du Français par un enfant serbe. (E. Champion, 1920), by Milivoj Pavlović (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rechʹ i intellekt v razvitii rebenka : ėksperimentalʹnoe issledovanie rechevykh reakt͡siĭ rebenka = Sprache und Intellect in der Entwickelung des Kindes : esperimentelle Untersuchung der Sprachreaktionen des Kindes ([Poligrafshkola imeni A.V. Lunacharskogo], 1927), by A. R. Lurii͡a and Akademii͡a kommunisticheskogo vospitanii͡a im. N.K. Krupskoĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eigenartige sprachliche Entwickelung eines Kindes; Vortrag in der Sitzung des Berliner Vereins für Kinderpsychologie am 13. Dezember 1901 (H. Walther, 1902), by Carl Stumpf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children's sayings, ed. with a digression on the small people (Isbister and company limited;, 1901), by William Canton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las estoglosias; contribución al estudio del lenguaje. (D. Jorro, 1911), by Rodolfo Senet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations et réflexions sur le développement de l'intelligence et du langage chez les enfants (A. Picard, 1879), by Emile Egger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language acquisition processes in bilingual children (Evaluation, Dissemination and Assessment Center, California State University, Los Angeles, 1984), by Carolyn Kessler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speech problems for children; a guide to care and correction (Grune & Stratton, 1850), by American Speech and Hearing Association, Wendell Johnson, and National Society for Crippled Children and Adults (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech development of a bilingual child; a linguist's record. (AMS Press, 1970), by Werner F. Leopold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De moedertall, eenig doelmatig voertuig der gedachte in opvoeding en onderwijs (A. Siffer, drukker der Koninklijke vlaamsche academie, 1898), by H. Temmerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reduplikationsbildungen im Französichen und Italianischen. (H.R. Sauerländer, 1921), by Frieda Kocher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Entertaining and instructive lessons in the use of language (Harper & brothers, 1855), by Jacob Abbott, Nathaniel Orr, Carl Emil Doepler, Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books, Bobbett & Edmonds, and Lossing & Barritt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dimensions of children's meaning vocabularies in grades four through twelve. (University of California Press, 1954), by David H. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language and mental development of children; an essay in educational psychology (D.C. Heath and Company, 1944), by A.F. Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychology of the language interest of Children ... ([Worcester, Mass., 1904), by Augustus William Trettien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sprache des Kindes : eine Anregung zur Erforschung des Gegenstandes (Günther, 1826), by Fritz Schultze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talk with baby : a guide for parents. (Division of Home Economics, Federal Extension Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1966), by United States. Division of Home Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Predictive screening test of articulation: manual (Continuing Education Office, Western Michigan University, 1970), by Charles Gage Van Riper and Robert L. Erickson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The influence of word and text properties on learning from context (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for the Study of Reading ;, 1986), by William E. Nagy, Patricia A. Herman, Richard C. Anderson, National Institute of Education (U.S.), Beranek Bolt, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading (page images at HathiTrust)
• A course of study in language : grades 1- 8 (1902), by John Madison Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vaterhaus und muttersprache ... (F. Frommann, 1860), by Karl Volkmar Stoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educational, word lessons (C. Darveau, 1800), by Charles Baillairgé (page images at HathiTrust)
• On teaching reading in public schools a practical essay read before the teachers' convention of the county of Brant, Ontario, May 31, 1879 (T. Henderson, 1879), by Alexander Melville Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Begriff und begriffe der kindersprache. (Berlin, 1902), by Wilhelm Ament (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kindesmundart. (Modern-pädagogischer und psychologischer Verlag, 1908), by Berthold Otto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das kind und die form der sprache. (Reuther & Reichard, 1904), by Walter Nausester (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contribuições para o estudo da lingoagem infantil (Barcellos : Typographia do Tirocinio, 1883., 1883), by J. Leite de Vasconcellos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vocabulary building (s.n.], 1963), by Edgar Dale and Joseph O'Rourke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toward more effective educational TV: a pilot study of the effects of commercial TV on the verbal behavior of preschool children. (Urbana, 1958), by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Institute of Communications Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die sprache der kinder. ([Prag, 1899), by Wendelin Toischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Comprehensive vocabulary for grades S1B to 4A, Laredo Public Schools (Field Studies in Education, Extension Teaching Bureau, Division of Extension, The University of Texas, 1940), by Texas. University. Division of Extension. Extension Teaching Bureau and Laredo (Tex.). Public Schools. Vocabulary Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language minority children at risk in America : concepts, definitions and estimates (Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation, Naional Council of La Raza, 1984), by Dorothy Waggoner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your child's speech--normal or defective? : a handbook for parents (College Typing Co., 1955), by Robert F. Hejna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies in infant speech and thought. ([The University of Illinois], 1936), by Abraham A. Low and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The author's word list for the primary grades. (Curriculum Research Co., 1945), by La Vern Laurel Krantz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Changes in the word associations of fourth and fifth grade children from 1916 to 1961 (Dept. of Psychology, Pennslyvania State University, 1964), by David Stuart Palermo and James J. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speech retardation; a case study. (Child Research Clinic of the Woods Schools, 1934), by Woods Schools. Child Research Clinic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Verbal language development scale; manual of item definitions (American Guidance Service, 1958), by Merlin J. Mecham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The development of speech understanding in relation to intelligence (Child Research Clinic of the Woods Schools, 1935), by Samuel Torrey Orton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Language development in a nursery school child, a case study. (Child Research Clinic of the Woods Schools, 1936), by Mary Goodman and Woods Schools. Child Research Clinic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lexical and grammatical interference in the speech of a bilingual child (University of Washington, 1964), by Paul Fred Kinzel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parent involvement in the education of minority language children : a resource handbook (National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1984), by Orestes I Crespo, Patricia Louque, and National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• A reading vocabulary for the primary grades (Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935), by Arthur I. Gates (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kindersprache und aphasie; gedanken zur aphasielehre auf grund von beobachtungen der kindlichen sprachentwicklung und ihrer anomalien (berücksichtigung der modernen psychologie) (S. Karger, 1918), by Emil Froeschels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The vocabulary of arithmetic (The University of Chicago, 1931), by Guy T. Buswell and Lenore John (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Slovniiat imot v detskiia govor. (Pridvorna pechatnitsa, 1910), by Ivan A. Georgov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The special vocabularies of the public school subjects ... ([Public School Pub. Co.], 1924), by Luella Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joint reading between mothers and their Head Start children : vocabulary development in two text formats (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by Anthony D. Pellegrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relationship of reading comprehension to the cognitive internal state lexicon (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by James R. Booth and William S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metacognitive development and the cognitive internal state lexicon (National Reading Research Center, 1994), by James R. Booth and William S. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The five speech-learning habits. : A paper developing a portion of the more general theory set forth in "A memorandum on problems of English teaching in the light of a new theory" issued in 1923. ([Place of publication not identified] : [n. pub.], [1927?], 1927), by Harold E. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The measurement of the growth of vocabulary in relation to the teaching of words to pre-school children. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1926., 1926), by Netta Faris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhivoe detskoe slovo : orytnoĭ stant︠si︡ narkomproca. ([Moskva] : Novai︠a︡ Moskva, 1925., 1925), by E. I︠U︡ Shabad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Play and say it ; a manual for helping the child learn how to make and use correct speech sounds. (Magnolia, Mass. : Expression Co., [1962], 1962), by Virginia Lynn Mellencamp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Play languages and language play. (Esperanto, 1963), by Artsid Otsikrev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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