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Schwab, Juliane; Liu, Mingya; Mueller, Jutta L. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Existing work on the acquisition of polarity-sensitive expressions (PSIs) suggests that children show an early sensitivity to the restricted distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs), but may be delayed in the acquisition of positive polarity items (PPIs). However, past studies primarily targeted PSIs that are highly frequent in children's…
Descriptors: German, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition
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Furlong, Lisa M.; Morris, Meg E.; Serry, Tanya A.; Erickson, Shane – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: This study explored the intervention processes used by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to treat children with speech sound disorders (SSDs). Method: Semistructured, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 Australian SLPs. Inductive content analysis was used to classify the data to provide a description of current…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Speech Language Pathology, Intervention, Content Analysis
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Baron, Andrew Scott; Dunham, Yarrow; Banaji, Mahzarin; Carey, Susan – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Determining which dimensions of social classification are culturally significant is a developmental challenge. Some suggest this is accomplished by differentially privileging intrinsic visual cues over nonintrinsic cues (Atran, 1990; Gil-White, 2001), whereas others point to the role of noun labels as more general promoters of kind-based reasoning…
Descriptors: Cues, Classification, Nouns, Visual Stimuli
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Spanoudis, George; Natsopoulos, Demetrios; Panayiotou, Georgia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Pragmatic language impairment has recently been the subject of a number of studies that attempted to illuminate classification and diagnostic issues, and identify the profile of children with pragmatic language difficulties. Although much progress has been made, the nature of pragmatic difficulties remains unclear. Aims: To contrast…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Verbs, Semantics, Pragmatics