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Haley Weaver; Jenny R. Saffran – Developmental Science, 2026
Questions about early word knowledge pervade the literature on both typical and atypical language trajectories. To determine which words an infant knows, researchers have relied on two types of measures--caregiver-report and eye-gaze behavior. When these measures are compared, however, their results frequently fail to converge, making it difficult…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Infants
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Jue Yu; Han Sun; Xingyu Tian; Mengzhu Yan; Yun Li – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2026
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the discourse-level syntactic complexity of school-age Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) and its relationship with their oral narrative performance. Method: Oral narrative samples were spontaneously elicited from 34 school-age CI children and 34 normal-hearing (NH) controls through a…
Descriptors: Syntax, Oral Language, Language Skills, Deafness