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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
Shang-Yu Wu; Hung-Ching Lin – SAGE Open, 2024
We investigated the effect of part of speech adoption on the utterance length of Mandarin-speaking children. A total of 209 typically developing Taiwanese children aged 3-6 years participated in the study. They included 90 boys and 119 girls recruited from preschools in Miaoli City, New Taipei City, and Taipei City. We collected children's…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Speech Communication, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Yoshiki Fujiwara; Hiroyuki Shimada – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children's consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives: the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
Cristina McKean; Christine Jack; Sean Pert; Carolyn Letts; Helen Stringer; Mark Masidlover; Anastasia Trebacz; Robert Rush; Emily Armstrong; Kate Conn; Jenny Sandham; Elaine Ashton; Naomi Rose – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Children's language abilities set the stage for their education, psychosocial development and life chances across the life course. Aims: To compare the efficacy of two preschool language interventions delivered with low dosages in early years settings (EYS): Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) and an Adapted Derbyshire Language…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children, Child Language
Yi-Lun Weng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding how a child's language system develops into an adult-like system is a central question in language development research. An increasingly influential account proposes that the brain constantly generates top-down predictions and matches them against incoming input, with higher-level cognitive models serving to minimize prediction…
Descriptors: Child Language, Prediction, Diagnostic Tests, Eye Movements
Edber Enrique Dzidz Yam; Barbara Blaha Pfeiler – First Language, 2024
This article explores the role of the reportative BIN in Yucatec Maya language acquisition and socialization among children aged 4 years and above, focusing on their interactions during pretend play. Building upon prior research on caregivers' strategic use of BIN, the study aims to elucidate the nuanced meanings and functions of the reportative…
Descriptors: Native Language, American Indians, American Indian Languages, Child Language
