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Speech acquisition in multilingual environment
SVOBODOVÁ, Sandra
The main focus of this diploma thesis is on speech acquisition in multilingual environment. The introduction part focuses mainly on the definition of basic concepts such as bilingualism and multilingualism, also mentions the types, advantages and disadvantages of these phenomena, as well as the principles of bilingual upbringing. Subsequently, the development of speech of monolingual individuals and its differentiation from multilingual ones is described. The empirical part contains a qualitative analysis of some families living in the Czech Republic. The aim of the diploma thesis is to assess the influence of a multilingual environment on speech acquisition through analysing families where Spanish is one of the languages in multilingual upbringing.
Development of vocabulary in early school age children
Fojtíčková, Eva ; Saicová Římalová, Lucie (advisor) ; Filippová, Eva (referee)
The presented thesis deals with the issue of ontogenesis of speech of children at preschool age. The first part of thesis presents theoretical basics from the field of developmental psycholinguistics. The theoretical part deals with the standard development of children's vocabulary and approaches to speech adoption, with aspects that influence the ontogenesis of speech and finally with deviations from a prevalent standard that are connected with handicaps. The first part also presents questionnaires that discover the degree of children's vocabulary. This part refers in detail to findings about children's speech at the age of 6 - 8. In practical part of this thesis active and passive vocabulary of children attending the 1st to 3rd grade of primary school is tested. The intact children and children with specific learning and behavioral disabilities and a child with Cerebral Palsy were tested in the survey. For the purpose of this thesis a pictorial test including 15 pictures was created. It contains particular nouns from different semantic categories. Key words: children speech, preschool period, phase of progress, passive and active vocabulary, semantic field, synonym, ontogenesis of speech and communication, learning disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, disability
Speech of adults in communication with children
Müllerová, Olga
Characteristics of specific features in communication of mothers with babies.

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