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McCauley, Stewart M.; Bannard, Colin; Theakston, Anna; Davis, Michelle; Cameron-Faulkner, Thea; Ambridge, Ben – Developmental Science, 2021
Psycholinguistic research over the past decade has suggested that children's linguistic knowledge includes dedicated representations for frequently-encountered multiword sequences. Important evidence for this comes from studies of children's production: it has been repeatedly demonstrated that children's rate of speech errors is greater for word…
Descriptors: Children, Speech, Familiarity, Language Processing
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Schonberg, Christina C.; Russell, Emily E.; Luna, Michelle L. – Developmental Science, 2020
English-monolingual children develop a shape bias early in language acquisition, such that they more often generalize a novel label based on shape than other features. Spanish-monolingual children, however, do not show this bias to the same extent (Hahn & Cantrell, 2012). Studying children who are simultaneously learning both Spanish and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bias, Spanish, English
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A. Delcenserie; F. Genesee; F. Champoux – Developmental Science, 2024
Recent evidence suggests that deaf children with CIs exposed to nonnative sign language from hearing parents can attain age-appropriate vocabularies in both sign and spoken language. It remains to be explored whether deaf children with CIs who are exposed to early nonnative sign language, but only up to implantation, also benefit from this input…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Phonology, Nonverbal Communication
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Paradis, Johanne; Jia, Ruiting – Developmental Science, 2017
Bilingual children experience more variation in their language environment than monolingual children and this impacts their rate of language development with respect to monolinguals. How long it takes for bilingual children learning English as a second language (L2) to display similar abilities to monolingual age-peers has been estimated to be 4-6…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Monolingualism
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Jones, Gary; Gobet, Fernand; Freudenthal, Daniel; Watson, Sarah E.; Pine, Julian M. – Developmental Science, 2014
Tests of nonword repetition (NWR) have often been used to examine children's phonological knowledge and word learning abilities. However, theories of NWR primarily explain performance either in terms of phonological working memory or long-term knowledge, with little consideration of how these processes interact. One theoretical account that…
Descriptors: Repetition, Theories, Models, Children
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Shayan, Shakila; Ozturk, Ozge; Bowerman, Melissa; Majid, Asifa – Developmental Science, 2014
Pitch is often described metaphorically: for example, Farsi and Turkish speakers use a "thickness" metaphor (low sounds are "thick" and high sounds are "thin"), while German and English speakers use a height metaphor ("low", "high"). This study examines how child and adult speakers of Farsi,…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, German, Turkish