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Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render case marking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We also investigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case-marking cues to interpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. A group of six- to…
Descriptors: Greek, Native Language, Children, Preadolescents
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Zharkova, Natalia – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The study analysed spectral and tongue shape dynamics of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives produced by ten children learning Scottish English. Synchronised ultrasound tongue imaging data and acoustic data were used to characterise children's productions of the phonemic contrast. Six children had consistently accurate productions of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Diagnostic Tests, Accuracy
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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Young English-speaking children often produce utterances with missing 3sg -s (e.g., *He play). Since the mid 1990s, such errors have tended to be treated as Optional Infinitive (OI) errors, in which the verb is a non-finite form (e.g., Wexler, 1998; Legate & Yang, 2007). The present article reports the results of a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Young Children, English, Speech, Error Patterns
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Armon-Lotem, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Verb inflectional morphology and prepositions are loci of difficulty for bilingual children with typical language development (TLD) as well as children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This paper examines errors in these linguistic domains in these two populations. Bilingual English-Hebrew and Russian-Hebrew preschool children, aged five…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Bilingualism, Monolingualism
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Keith, Margaux; Nicoladis, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study tested whether bilingual children show a lag in semantic development (the schematic-categorical shift) relative to monolingual children due to smaller vocabularies within a language. Twenty French-English bilingual and twenty English monolingual children (seven to ten years old) participated in a picture-naming task in English. Their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
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Freudenthal, Daniel: Pine, Julian; Gobet, Fernando – Journal of Child Language, 2010
In this study, we use corpus analysis and computational modelling techniques to compare two recent accounts of the OI stage: Legate & Yang's (2007) Variational Learning Model and Freudenthal, Pine & Gobet's (2006) Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children. We first assess the extent to which each of these accounts can explain the level of OI errors…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Child Language
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Kirjavainen, Minna; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2009
English-speaking children make pronoun case errors producing utterances where accusative pronouns are used in nominative contexts ("me do it"). We investigate whether complex utterances in the input ("Let me do it") might explain the origin of these errors. Longitudinal naturalistic data from seventeen English-speaking two- to four-year-olds was…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Verbs, Caregivers
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Pearson, Barbara Zurer – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Comprehension of metaphor in preschoolers was studied through an elicited repetition task. It was shown that the metaphors were not semantically anomolous to the children and that they were processed on a par with literal language. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
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Santelmann, Lynn; Berk, Stephanie; Austin, Jennifer; Somashekar, Shamitha; Lust, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Language Acquisition, Child Language, English
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Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J.; Clarke, Paula – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Three experiments investigated the ability of eight-year old children with poor language comprehension to produce past tense forms of verbs. Twenty children selected as poor comprehenders were compared to 20 age-matched control children. Although the poor comprehenders performed less well than controls on a range of tasks considered to tap…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Comprehension, Semantics