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Riordan, Jessica; Reese, Elaine; Das, Shika; Carroll, Jane; Schaughency, Elizabeth – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
"Tender Shoots" compared two book-reading and conversation approaches for parents and preschoolers to an activity-based control group. The "Rich Reading and Reminiscing" (RRR) condition taught parents to converse about the storyline; the "Strengthening Sound Sensitivity" (SSS) condition taught parents to converse…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Story Reading, Phonological Awareness
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Egilsson, Björn Rúnar; Dockett, Sue; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Interpretation in cross-language qualitative research presents a range of methodological and ethical challenges. Among these are the interpreters' influence on data generation and interview power dynamics. Having translators review and/or produce an independent translation of recorded interview material for comparative purposes is regarded as one…
Descriptors: Translation, Ethics, Language Processing, Preschool Education
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Murdoch, Amy; Warburg, Rosanne; Corbo, Elizabeth; Strickler, Wendy – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
A key to reducing reading difficulty, particularly for children living in poverty, is to provide high quality, explicit, and well-planned instruction from the start of a child's school career. Preschools that provide quality language, literacy, and content instruction have produced promising positive effects on children's later academic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition, Program Implementation, Literacy Education
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Chon, HeeCheong; Sawyer, Jean; Ambrose, Nicoline G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate characteristics of four types of utterances in preschool children who stutter: perceptually fluent, containing normal disfluencies (OD utterance), containing stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD utterance), and containing both normal and stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD+OD utterance).…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Stuttering, Correlation, Preschool Children
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Smith, Anne; Goffman, Lisa; Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; Weber-Fox, Christine – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2012
Stuttering is a disorder of speech production that typically arises in the preschool years, and many accounts of its onset and development implicate language and motor processes as critical underlying factors. There have, however, been very few studies of speech motor control processes in preschool children who stutter. Hearing novel nonwords and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Impairments, Speech, Stuttering
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de Bree, Elise; Kerkhoff, Annemarie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
This study assesses morpho-phonological alternation in plural formation by 5-year-old Dutch children with a familial risk of dyslexia, children with specific language impairment (SLI), and typically developing children. The morpho-phonological process investigated is the voicing alternation in Dutch singular-plural pairs such as bed [t]…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Indo European Languages, Task Analysis
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Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine within- and across-language relationships between lexical and grammatical domains by focusing on measures of lexical diversity and grammatical complexity in Spanish and English. One hundred ninety-six preschool and school-aged Latino children with different levels of English and Spanish proficiencies and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Bilingualism, Vocabulary
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Foy, Judith G.; Mann, Virginia A. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks. Some studies show age-related effects of density on children's performance, reflecting a developmental restructuring of the mental lexicon from holistic into segmental representations that may play a role in phonological awareness. To further investigate density…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Age Differences, Adults, Comparative Analysis
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Marinova-Todd, Stefka H.; Zhao, Jing; Bernhardt, May – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
A number of studies have shown that bilingual children have an advantage when performing on phonological awareness tasks, particularly in their stronger language. Little research has been done to date, examining the effects of bilingualism on both languages of bilingual children. In this study Mandarin-English bilingual children's performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese
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Lin, Lu-Chun; Johnson, Cynthia J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
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Mildner, Vesna; Tomic, Diana – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The authors studied the acquisition of nine #sC clusters in 30 Croatian-speaking phonologically disordered children, aged between 3;8-7;0 years, by analysing their renditions of target words elicited in response to visual stimuli presented on a computer screen. Results did not support the idea that a greater jump in sonority from C1 to C2 would…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Visual Stimuli, Speech Communication
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Gerrits, Ellen – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study investigated the acquisition of word initial s clusters of 3-5 year old Dutch children with phonological disorders. Within these clusters, sl was produced correctly most often, whereas sn and sx were the more difficult clusters. In cluster reductions, s+obstruent and sl clusters reduction patterns followed the Sonority Sequencing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Special Needs Students, Special Education