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Han, Mengru; De Jong, Nivja H.; Kager, René – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study investigates the pitch properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) specific to word-learning contexts in which mothers introduce unfamiliar words to children. Using a semi-spontaneous story-book telling task, we examined (1) whether mothers made distinctions between unfamiliar and familiar words with pitch in IDS compared to…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Intonation
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred – Journal of Child Language, 2015
The present study compared the performance of twenty-seven French-speaking internationally adopted (IA) children from China to that of twenty-seven monolingual non-adopted French-speaking children (CTL) matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status on a Clitic Elicitation task. The IA children omitted significantly more accusative object…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Adoption