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Children's Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in Italian: Contrasting the Roles of Frequency and Positional Salience in Maternal Language
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Spataro, Pietro; Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Because of its structural characteristics, specifically the prevalence of verb types in infant-directed speech and frequent pronoun-dropping, the Italian language offers an attractive opportunity to investigate the predictive effects of input frequency and positional salience on children's acquisition of nouns and verbs. We examined this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Nouns, Verbs
The Use of the Internet in Collecting CDI Data -- An Example from Norway
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Kristoffersen, Kristian E.; Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Bleses, Dorthe; Wehberg, Sonja; Jorgensen, Rune Norgard; Eiesland, Eli Anne; Henriksen, Laila Yvonne – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This article presents the methodology used in a population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates communicative development inventories (CDI), comprising approximately 6500 children aged between 0 ; 8 and 3 ; 0. To our knowledge, this is the first CDI study collecting data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Language Acquisition, Data Collection
Mothers' Labeling Responses to Infants' Gestures Predict Vocabulary Outcomes
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Olson, Janet; Masur, Elise Frank – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Twenty-nine infants aged 1;1 and their mothers were videotaped while interacting with toys for 18 minutes. Six experimental stimuli were presented to elicit infant communicative bids in two communicative intent contexts--proto-declarative and proto-imperative. Mothers' verbal responses to infants' gestural and non-gestural communicative bids were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Mothers, Labeling (of Persons)
Note of Clarification on the Coding of Light Verbs in "Semantic Generality, Input Frequency and the Acquisition of Syntax" (Journal of Child Language 31, 61-99)
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Theakson, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In our recent paper, "Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax" ("Journal of Child Language" 31, 61-99), we presented data from two-year-old children to examine the question of whether the semantic generality of verbs contributed to their ease and stage of acquisition over and above the effects of their typically high…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Syntax, Child Language
Computer Methods in Child Language Research: Four Principles for the Use of Archived Data.
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Edwards, Jane A. – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Presents four principles for archive-based language research: maximum readability and minimum bias; consistent encoding for exhaustive computer search; systematic contrastiveness; and data comparability in elicitation, transcription and coding. Examples from existing computer archives illustrate these and other principles, and strategies are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Coding, Computers, Databases
Sources of Support for Learning Words in Conversation: Evidence from Mealtimes.
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Beals, Diane E. – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Examines mealtimes of preschoolers' families to determine whether rare words are used in informative ways so that a child could learn their meanings. Each use was coded for whether it was informative or uninformative; each informative exchange was coded for type of strategy used to provide support. Frequency of use was positively correlated with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Coding, Family Environment, Knowledge Level