NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Carrol, Gareth – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Idioms, along with other formulaic multiword phrases, represent a substantial part of vocabulary knowledge. This study investigates how idiom knowledge develops through the adult lifespan, comparing familiarity and transparency ratings for a large set of common English idioms. A total of 237 participants, ranging from 18 to 77 years old,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Native Speakers, Age Differences, English
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Julie Bodard; Thierry Nazzi; Géraldine Jean-Charles; Marco Pedrotti; Katrin Skoruppa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: In the past three decades, statistical learning, that is, the capacity to detect patterns and regularities in the environment, has been shown to have an important role in language development. In particular, the ability to detect nonadjacent dependencies (NADs) between linguistic elements that are separated by intervening material seems…
Descriptors: Toddlers, French, Language Acquisition, Grammar
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sibel Karabekmez; Sümeyra Soysal; Arzu Balci – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2025
In this study, the effects of the number naming system and age factor on the counting skills of children speaking Turkish and Dutch at the ages of 4 (n = 50) and 5 (n = 50) were examined. Children were given four counting skill tasks which were designed with different scenarios for children's counting skills under the sub-headings of rote…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Computation, Numbers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Elin Thordardottir; Ludivine Plez – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Background: Bilingual assessment is particularly difficult in the very first period of children's second language (L2) exposure. This exploratory, longitudinal study examined L2 learning after 1 and 2 years of L2 exposure by young immigrants and how it is affected by their age at first exposure to the L2 (AoE). Method: Participants were 18…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Preschool Children, Adolescents
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wu, Dandan; Cai, Liman; Liang, Luyao; Li, Hui – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the patterns and predictors of code-switching (CS) in Singapore preschoolers by analyzing the data elicited from an existing early childhood corpus. Altogether 943 cases of CS produced by 111 children aged 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6, respectively, were analyzed. The results indicated that: (1) 'insertion', 'intersentential', and…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Code Switching (Language), Computational Linguistics, Age Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Bassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Accuracy