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Havron, Naomi; Arnon, Inbal – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Can emergent literacy impact the size of the linguistic units children attend to? We examined children's ability to segment multiword sequences before and after they learned to read, in order to disentangle the effect of literacy and age on segmentation. We found that early readers were better at segmenting multiword units (after controlling for…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Children, Linguistic Input, Language Processing
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Ma, Weiyi; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; McDonough, Colleen; Tardif, Twila – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Verbs are harder to learn than nouns in English and in many other languages, but are relatively easy to learn in Chinese. This paper evaluates one potential explanation for these findings by examining the construct of imageability, or the ability of a word to produce a mental image. Chinese adults rated the imageability of Chinese words from the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Chinese, Adults
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Scofield, Jason; Behrend, Douglas A. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
When presented with a pair of objects, one familiar and one unfamiliar, and asked to select the referent of a novel word, children reliably demonstrate the disambiguation effect and select the unfamiliar object. The current study investigated two competing word learning accounts of this effect: a pragmatic account and a word learning principles…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Toddlers, Pragmatics, Vocabulary Development
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Bascelli, Elisabetta; Barbieri, Maria Silvia – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This study assesses children's understanding of the Italian modal verbs "dovere" (must) and "potere" (may) in their dual function of qualification of the speaker's beliefs (epistemic modality) and behaviour regulation (deontic modality). 192 children and 60 adults participated in the experiment. Children aged 3;0 to 9;2 were presented with two…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Verbs
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Corkum, Valerie; Dunham, Philip – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Examines the CDI-WORDS Short Form vocabulary checklist as an index of language production. The study focuses on the associations between this short form and directly observed measures of lexical production; the associations between short-form checklists administered at different ages; the predictive associations between short form scores and…
Descriptors: Age, Associative Learning, Child Language, Intellectual Development
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Kail, Michele – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This study examined the on-line processing of French sentences in a grammaticality judgment experiment. Three age groups of French children (mean age: 6;8, 8;6 and 10;10 years) and a group of adults were asked to detect grammatical violations as quickly as possible. Three factors were studied: the violation type: agreement violations (number and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Grammar, Word Order