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Direct linkBastian Bunzeck; Holger Diessel – First Language, 2025
In a seminal study, Cameron-Faulkner et al. made two important observations about utterance-level constructions in English child-directed speech (CDS). First, they observed that canonical in/transitive sentences are surprisingly infrequent in child-direct speech (given that SVO word order is often thought to play a key role in the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech Habits, Speech Communication
Xiaoyan Li; Ran Sun; Yonghan Peng; Yumin Zhang – First Language, 2025
This study aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between maternal conversational participation and the unconventional language of autistic children, and whether the relative vocabulary diversity between mother and child would affect the relationship between them. Participants were 39 autistic Mandarin-speaking children, aged 3-6 years,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Participation, Language Usage, Autism Spectrum Disorders
