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How Specific Is the Connection between Morphological Awareness and Spelling? A Study of French Children
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Casalis, S.; Deacon, S. H.; Pacton, S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This study examined the relationship between morphological awareness and spelling. We show that French children in Grades 3 and 4 appear to use morphological information in spelling; spelling of sounds for which there are several alternatives was more accurate in derived than in nonderived words. The link between morphological awareness and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Grade 3, Grade 4
Social and Linguistic Input in Low-Income African American Mother-Child Dyads from 1 Month through 2 Years: Relations to Vocabulary Development
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Shimpi, Priya M.; Fedewa, Alicia; Hans, Sydney – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
The relation of social and linguistic input measures to early vocabulary development was examined in 30 low-income African American mother-infant pairs. Observations were conducted when the child was 0 years, 1 month (0;1), 0;4, 0;8, 1;0, 1;6, and 2;0. Maternal input was coded for word types and tokens, contingent responsiveness, and…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language
Parental Language Input Patterns and Children's Bilingual Use
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De Houwer, Annick – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
This article reports on a study that addresses the following question: why do some children exposed to two languages from early on fail to speak those two languages? Questionnaire data were collected in 1,899 families in which at least one of the parents spoke a language other than the majority language. Each questionnaire asked about the home…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Bilingualism
Speech Perception and Frequency Discrimination in Good and Poor Readers.
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De Weirdt, Willy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
Probes the relation between speech perception and reading ability of children who were good or poor readers. Results indicate that reading-related perception differences were especially marked in a comparison of actual and predicted discrimination scores. Identification slope and phoneme boundary differences between reader groups were found as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Language Patterns, Language Proficiency
An Interactive Modeling Technique for Acquisition of Communication Skills: Separation of "Labeling" and "Requesting" in a Psittacine Subject.
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Pepperberg, Irene M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1988
An African gray parrot, taught to employ the vocalization "want" before an object label so as to discriminate functional labeling from requesting, subsequently generalized "want" to novel situations. The findings of the study indicate that the training procedure might be applicable to intervention programs for humans with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Correlation
The Relation of Input Factors to Lexical Learning by Bilingual Infants.
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Pearson, Barbara Z.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examined the strength of the association between language exposure estimates and vocabulary learning for simultaneous bilingual infants with differing patterns of exposure to the languages being learned. Findings revealed that the correlation was strong, even for children whose language environments changed by more than 20% between observations.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Correlation
Literate Discourse and Cognitive Organization: Some Relations between Parents' Talk and Three-Year-Olds' Thought.
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Watson, Rita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Analysis of videotapes of 19 parent-child dyads during bookreading when children were 2.5 years old, and subsequent analysis of the children's paradigmatic thought organization at 3.5 years, revealed a significant correlation between superordinate level labels in parents' talk and 3 measures of children's paradigmatic organization. (45 references)…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Discourse Analysis