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Rajaram, Melissa – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Multisyllabic words constitute a large portion of children's vocabulary. However, the relationship between phonological neighborhood density and English multisyllabic word learning is poorly understood. We examine this link in three, four and six year old children using a corpus-based approach. While we were able to replicate the well-accepted…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, English, Computational Linguistics
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Wilson, Alexander C.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2022
It remains unclear whether pragmatic language skills and core language skills (grammar and vocabulary) are distinct language domains. The present work aimed to tease apart these domains using a novel online assessment battery administered to almost 400 children aged 7 to 13 years. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that pragmatic and core…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Computer Assisted Testing, Factor Analysis, Grammar
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Muhinyi, Amber; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Caregiver abstract talk during shared reading predicts preschool-age children's vocabulary development. However, previous research has focused on level of abstraction with less consideration of the style of extratextual talk. Here, we investigated the relation between these two dimensions of extratextual talk, and their contributions to variance…
Descriptors: Prediction, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others
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Han, Min Kyung; Storkel, Holly; Bontempo, Daniel E. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Many studies have addressed the effect of neighborhood density (phonological similarity among words) on word learning in quiet listening conditions. We explored how noise influences the effect of neighborhood density on children's word learning. One-hundred-and-two preschoolers learned nonwords varied in neighborhood density in one of four…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phonology
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Raneri, Daniele; Von Holzen, Katie; Newman, Rochelle; Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Aims: Although IDS is typically described as slower than adult-directed speech (ADS), potential impacts of slower speech on language development have not been examined. We explored whether IDS speech rates in 42 mother-infant dyads at four time periods predicted children's language outcomes at two years. Method: We correlated IDS speech rate with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
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Van Wonderen, Elise; Unsworth, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT; Haman, Luniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) is a vocabulary task designed to enable cross-linguistic comparisons both across and within (bilingual) children. In this paper we assessed the validity of the CLT as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children, by determining the extent to which: (1)…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Task Analysis
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Tecoulesco, Lisa; Fein, Deborah; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Categorical induction abilities are robust in typically developing (TD) preschoolers, while children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) frequently perform inconsistently on tasks asking for the transference of traits from a known category member to a new example based on shared category membership. Here, TD five-year-olds and six-year-olds with…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Task Analysis
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Majorano, Marinella; Bastianello, Tamara; Morelli, Marika; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous studies have demonstrated an effect of early vocal production on infants' speech processing and later vocabulary. This study focuses on the relationship between vocal production and new word learning. Thirty monolingual Italian-learning infants were recorded at about 11 months, to establish the extent of their consonant production. In…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Correlation
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Ruffman, Ted; Lorimer, Ben; Vanier, Sarah; Scarf, Damian; Du, Kangning; Taumoepeau, Mele – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We examined the relation between maternal responsiveness and children's acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary in 59 pairs of mothers and children aged 10 to 26 months as they engaged in a free-play episode. Children wore a head camera and responsiveness was defined as maternal talk that commented on the child's actions (e.g., when…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Vocabulary Development, Infants
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Rinaldi, Pasquale; Pasqulaetti, Patrizio; Stefanini, Silvia; Bello, Arianna – Journal of Child Language, 2019
One of the most popular and widely used parent report instruments for assessing early language acquisition is the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI). This study compares normative data of the Italian Words and Sentences complete form (WS-CF) and short form (WS-SF). The samples included 752 children for the WS-CF and 816…
Descriptors: Italian, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
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Bruyneel, Eva; Demurie, Ellen; Boterberg, Sofie; Warreyn, Petra; Roeyers, Herbert – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The validity of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) System was evaluated for Dutch. 216 5-min samples (six samples per age per child) were selected from daylong recordings at 5, 10 and 14 months of age of native Dutch-speaking younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (N=6) and of typically developing children (N=6). Two…
Descriptors: Validity, Indo European Languages, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
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Barachetti, Chiara; Majorano, Marinella; Rossi, Germano; Antolini, Elena; Zerbato, Rosanna; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The relationship between first and second language in early vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children is still debated in the literature. This study compared the expressive vocabulary of 39 equivalently low-SES two-year-old bilingual children from immigrant families with different heritage languages (Romanian vs. Nigerian English) and the same…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Romance Languages, Italian
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Treat, Amy E.; Sheffield Morris, Amanda; Hays-Grudo, Jennifer; Williamson, Amy C. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study investigated the associations between maternal depression when infants were 3 to 11 months old (M = 6 months), and positive parenting behaviors when children were between 12 and 22 months (M = 17 months) and the home language environment assessed when children were 18 to 28 months old (M = 23.5 months) in a sample of 29 low-income…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Correlation, Infants
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Dave, Shruti; Mastergeorge, Ann M.; Olswang, Lesley B. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Responsive parental communication during an infant's first year has been positively associated with later language outcomes. This study explores responsivity in mother-infant communication by modeling how change in guiding language between 7 and 11 months influences toddler vocabulary development. In a group of 32 mother-child dyads, change in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Longitudinal Studies
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Cadime, Irene; Moreira, Célia S.; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Silva, Carla; Ribeiro, Iolanda; Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The goals of this study were to analyze the growth and stability of vocabulary, mean length of the three longest utterances (MLLUw), and sentence complexity in European Portuguese-speaking children aged 1;4-2;6, to explore differences in growth as a function of personal and family-related variables, and to investigate the inter-relationships among…
Descriptors: Grammar, Portuguese, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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