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Chen, Fei; Peng, Gang; Yan, Nan; Wang, Lan – Journal of Child Language, 2017
To track the course of development in children's fine-grained perception of Mandarin tones, the present study explored how categorical perception (CP) of Mandarin tones emerges along age among 70 four- to seven-year-old children and 16 adults. Prominent discrimination peaks were found for both the child and the adult groups, and they were well…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Adults, Age Differences
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Three studies assessing language comprehension of infants and toddlers through a method requiring a minimum of motor movement, no speech production, and differential visual fixation of two simultaneously presented video events provide insight into children's emerging linguistic capabilities and help resolve controversies about language production…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Language Acquisition, Language Aptitude