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Rebecca Zhu; Alison Gopnik – Child Development, 2024
Three preregistered experiments, conducted in 2021, investigated whether English-speaking American preschoolers (N = 120; 4-6 years; 54 females, predominantly White) and adults (N = 80; 18-52 years; 59 females, predominantly Asian) metonymically extend owners' names to owned objects--an extension not typically found in English. In Experiment 1, 5-…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, English, Young Children
Sun, Xin; Zhang, Kehui; Marks, Rebecca A.; Nickerson, Nia; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Yu, Chi-Lin; Chou, Tai-Li; Tardif, Twila; Kovelman, Ioulia – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chinese-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N = 283, 5-10 years). Research question 1 examines English literacy and asks how phonological and morpho-semantic skills contribute to word reading as a function of children's language…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Bilingualism, Transfer of Training
Semantic Structure in Vocabulary Knowledge Interacts with Lexical and Sentence Processing in Infancy
Borovsky, Arielle; Ellis, Erica M.; Evans, Julia L.; Elman, Jeffrey L. – Child Development, 2016
Although the size of a child's vocabulary associates with language-processing skills, little is understood regarding how this relation emerges. This investigation asks whether and how the structure of vocabulary knowledge affects language processing in English-learning 24-month-old children (N = 32; 18 F, 14 M). Parental vocabulary report was used…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Correlation, English
Pulverman, Rachel; Song, Lulu; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Pruden, Shannon M.; Golinkoff, Roberta M. – Child Development, 2013
In the world, the manners and paths of motion events take place together, but in language, these features are expressed separately. How do infants learn to process motion events in linguistically appropriate ways? Forty-six English-learning 7- to 9-month-olds were habituated to a motion event in which a character performed both a manner and a…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Infants, Cognitive Processes