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Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Elly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025
This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Simthembile Xeketwana; Nobesuthu Xeketwana; Christine Anthonissen – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: This study explores how family language policies (FLPs) in multilingual homes where isiXhosa is the primary language influence caregiver choices regarding children's language development and education. Objectives: The study aims to give insight on how non-nuclear family structures in a selected sample of Western Cape families are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Usage, Language Planning
The Acquisition of Aspect Markers by Mandarin-Speaking Children with Developmental Language Disorder
Xiaoyan Zeng; Qingwen Liu; Mengyu Gao; Rumi Wang; Yasuhiro Shirai – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study investigates the acquisition of aspect markers by Mandarin-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in comparison to typically developing aged-matched (TDA) children and typically developing younger (TDY) children through the aspect hypothesis (AH). Method: A sentence-picture matching task and a priming…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Form Classes (Languages)
Kassahun Weldemariam – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Numerous studies indicate that the language and literacy development of young children is highly contingent upon the construction of an enriching home literacy environment. Using sociocultural theory as a framework, in this article I explore how a bilingual child's language and literacy acquisition is embedded as a social practice within the home…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Literacy, Bilingualism
Uli Sauerland; Marie-Christine Meyer; Kazuko Yatsushiro – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
German-speaking children between ages 2 and 3 mostly use the preposition ohne ('without') in an adult-like way, to express the absence of something. In this article we present surprising results from a corpus study suggesting that in this age group, absence can also be expressed using the sequence mit ohne 'with without'. We argue that this…
Descriptors: Toddlers, German, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages)
Naila Tallas-Mahajna; Sharon Armon-Lotem; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The Arabic verb system features a nonlinear root and pattern derivational morphology. Previous studies suggest that young Arabic and Hebrew speakers' early verb use is based on semantic complexity rather than derivational morphological structure. The present study examines the role of morphological and semantic complexity in the emergence…
Descriptors: Arabic, Verbs, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Bassil M. Mashaqba; Khalid Al-Shdifat; Anas I. Al huneety; Mohammad Nour Abu Guba; Hadeel Abdelhadi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This study investigated phonological whole-word measures in bilingual Arabic-English speakers to explore how the target approximations influence children's phonological development. To this end, fifteen bilingual Arabic-English speakers and nine monolingual Arabic-speaking children aged 36-48 months (mean = 42) participated in a parent-child…
Descriptors: Phonology, Child Language, Bilingualism, Arabic
Alhanouf Yosef Alhazimi; Clare Carroll; Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Children who stutter have the right to express their views and be heard. However, in research on stuttering, attention tends to focus mainly on parental and adult perspectives. By actively engaging with children's viewpoints, we can enhance our understanding of their distinct needs and capabilities. This, in turn, enables the…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Child Language, Language Attitudes, Stuttering
Nozomi Tanaka; Elaine Lau; Alan L. F. Lee – First Language, 2024
Subject relative clauses (RCs) have been shown to be acquired earlier, comprehended more accurately, and produced more easily than object RCs by children. While this subject preference is often claimed to be a universal tendency, it has largely been investigated piecemeal and with low-powered experiments. To address these issues, this…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Language, Language Classification, Preferences
Joanine Hester Nel; Frenette Southwood; Michelle Jennifer White – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The acquisition of passives is well-studied in many languages, with evidence of crosslinguistic differences in the age at which passives are acquired. The aim of this study is to add to the existing knowledge of child acquisition of passives by providing data from Afrikaans and isiXhosa, two under-researched and typologically different languages…
Descriptors: African Languages, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Classification
Ragnar Arntzen; Gisela Håkansson – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article examines multilingual language use in two groups of children, one group at a state school, and one at a private IB school. The IB school has earlier been assumed to reflect an 'elite' multilingualism. Three research questions are posed: to what extent is the children's language use multilingual, what are their typological profiles,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Children, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Luan Li; Ming Song; Qing Cai – Developmental Science, 2025
Early vocabulary development benefits from diverse lexical exposures within children's language environment. However, the influence of lexical diversity on children as they enter middle childhood and are exposed to multimodal language inputs remains unclear. This study evaluates global and local aspects of lexical diversity in three…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Child Language, Speech Communication
Journie Dickerson; Rachael Frush Holt; David B. Pisoni; William G. Kronenberger – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Many child-, hearing-, and device-related factors contribute to spoken language outcomes in children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). Recently, the family environment has been implicated as another contributing factor in language development. However, most studies on the role of families in language outcomes of children who are DHH…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Family Environment, Children
Julie Daelman; Kristiane Van Lierde; Lut Willems; Manon Evrard; Ellen Simon; Evelien D'haeseleer – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Bilingual children are at risk for being misdiagnosed with developmental language disorders (DLD) because language tests in speech-language practice often fail to accommodate cultural and linguistic diversity. Evaluation of learning ability and modifiability during dynamic assessment may improve the diagnostic procedure for bilingual…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Language Skills, Bilingual Students, Indo European Languages