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Florencia Alam; Marta Casla; María Ileana Ibañez; Celia Renata Rosemberg – First Language, 2025
The study adopts a multimodal perspective, looking at adults' use of gestures in variation sets (VS; i.e. sequences of partial self-repetitions occurring in successive utterances of varying form) addressed to Spanish-learning toddlers in adult-child interactions. We seek to address the following question: Do adults make simultaneous use of VS and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication
Chen Zhao; Ludovica Serratrice; Elena Lieven; Circle Steele; Nivedita Malik; Yi An; Emily Hayden; Jo Neumegen; Thea Cameron-Faulkner – First Language, 2024
Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the language-learning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Socialization
Formosa, Jennifer; Little, Sabine – First Language, 2023
This qualitative, exploratory research study is positioned within the field of Family Language Policy (FLP). Contextualised in bilingual Malta, where Maltese is the majority language, the study inquires into the effects of a plurilingual family language programme on the language ideologies within English-speaking Maltese families. The programme…
Descriptors: Native Language, Family Programs, Family Relationship, Language Usage
Junyi Yang; Joshua F. Lawrence; Vibeke Grøver – First Language, 2024
While it is established that parental "wh"-questions, as a high-quality language input, are associated with child language outcome, less is known about the role of children's "wh"-questions in their language development. This study examines whether children's "wh"-questions during a dinnertime conversation are…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Parent Child Relationship, Family Characteristics, Expressive Language
Read, Kirsten; Rogojina, Alena; Hauer-Richard, Olivia – First Language, 2022
There is robust evidence that reading aloud with young children can help them learn new vocabulary. Building upon prior research, this study tested the effects of "both" book text features "and" readers' spontaneous extra-textual word-highlighting strategies on 3- to 4-year-olds' vocabulary retention from repeated read alouds…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Reading Aloud to Others
Olson, Janet; Masur, Elise Frank – First Language, 2019
Mothers' provision of utterances with internal state words has been shown to influence infants' acquisition of internal state vocabulary and has been proposed to foster preschoolers' theory of mind development. In this article the authors examine maternal internal state speech during free play with infants at 13, 17, and 21 months. The study…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
He, Angela Xiaoxue; Luyster, Rhiannon; Hong, Sung Ju; Arunachalam, Sudha – First Language, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to personal pronoun difficulties. This article investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley and McNally's corpus of maternal speech to infants (3-19 months; N = 19) who are either at high or low…
Descriptors: Native Language, Form Classes (Languages), Mothers, Clinical Diagnosis
Ma, Weiyi; Zhou, Peng; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Lee, Joanne; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – First Language, 2019
The syntactic structure of sentences in which a new word appears may provide listeners with cues to that new word's form class. In English, for example, a noun tends to follow a determiner ("a"/"an"/"the"), while a verb precedes the morphological inflection [ing]. The presence of these markers may assist children in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Cues, Mandarin Chinese, Verbs
Diaz, Vanessa; Farrar, M. Jeffrey – First Language, 2018
Bilingual children often show advanced executive functioning (EF) and false belief (FB) understanding compared to monolinguals. The latter has been attributed to their enhanced inhibitory control EF, although this has only been examined in a single study which did not confirm this hypothesis. The current study examined the relation of EF and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
Willenberg, Ingrid – First Language, 2017
Children's narrative skills have been widely studied in North America, but there is a paucity of African research. Within South Africa's diverse socio-cultural context, this study of mixed-race children explored the development of narrative production and the influence of home background variables. Using the Bear Story picture prompt, this…
Descriptors: Narration, Native Language, Correlation, Mothers
Lebon-Eyquem, Mylène – First Language, 2015
Linguists use the concept of "diglossia" to describe any sociolinguistic situation where a low-prestige dialect coexists with a high-prestige one and these dialects are used in different social spheres. Recent observations on Reunion Island have challenged this view because people mix French and Creole extensively in the same utterance…
Descriptors: Surveys, Creoles, Dialects, Profiles
Ge, Haoyan; Matthews, Stephen; Cheung, Lawrence Yam-leung; Yip, Virginia – First Language, 2017
This corpus-based study demonstrates a case of bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of right-dislocation by Cantonese-English bilingual children and interprets the results in relation to Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence. Longitudinal data reveal qualitative and quantitative differences between…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages, Transfer of Training