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Grimminger, Angela; Rohlfing, Katharina J.; Lüke, Carina; Liszkowski, Ulf; Ritterfeld, Ute – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Decontextualized talk is assumed to be used only rarely when children are younger than 30 months. Motivated by Bühler's (1934/1999) linguistic theory that describes different dimensions of (de-)contextualization, we provide evidence that this kind of input can already be found in caregivers' talking to their 12-month-old children. Such early input…
Descriptors: Infants, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
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Yuile, Amanda Rose; Sabbagh, Mark A. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
We investigated whether children's inhibitory control (IC) is associated with their ability to produce irregular past tense verb forms as well as learn from corrective feedback following overregularization errors. Forty-eight 3;6 to 4;5 year old children were tested on the irregular past tense and provided with adult corrective input via models of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Nakipoglu, Mine; Uzundag, Berna A.; Sarigul, Özge – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Children's remarkable ability to generalize beyond the input and the resulting overregularizations/ irregularizations provide a platform for a discussion of whether morphology learning uses analogy-based, rule-based, or statistical learning procedures. The present study, testing 115 children (aged 3 to 10) on an elicited production task,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Turkish, Verbs
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Emberson, Lauren L.; Loncar, Nicole; Mazzei, Carolyn; Treves, Isaac – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Learners preferentially interpret novel nouns at the basic level ('dog') rather than at a more narrow level ('Labrador'). This 'basic-level bias' is mitigated by statistics: children and adults are more likely to interpret a novel noun at a more narrow label if they witness 'a suspicious coincidence' -- the word applied to three exemplars of the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Nouns, Language Processing, Inferences
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Trudeau, Natacha; Champoux, François – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Pierce "et al." (2017) have proposed that variations in the timing, quality and quantity of language input during the earliest stages of development are related to variations in the development of phonological working memory and, in turn, to later language learning outcomes. To examine this hypothesis, three groups of children who are…
Descriptors: Phonology, At Risk Persons, Linguistic Input, Short Term Memory
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Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This paper focuses on the acquisition of locative prepositional phrases in L1 Norwegian. We report on two production experiments with children acquiring Norwegian as their first language and compare the results to similar experiments conducted with Russian children. The results of the experiments show that Norwegian children at age 2 regularly…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Norwegian, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
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Ninio, Anat – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The environmental context of verbs addressed by adults to young children is claimed to be uninformative regarding the verbs' meaning, yielding the Syntactic Bootstrapping Hypothesis that, for verb learning, full sentences are needed to demonstrate the semantic arguments of verbs. However, reanalysis of Gleitman's (1990) original data regarding…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Vocabulary Development
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Pye, Clifton – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Poverty of the stimulus (POS) arguments have instigated considerable debate in the recent linguistics literature. This article uses the comparative method to challenge the logic of POS arguments. Rather than question the premises of POS arguments, the article demonstrates how POS arguments for individual languages lead to a "reductio ad absurdum"…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Language Universals
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Pelham, Sabra D. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
English-acquiring children frequently make pronoun case errors, while German-acquiring children rarely do. Nonetheless, German-acquiring children frequently make article case errors. It is proposed that when child-directed speech contains a high percentage of case-ambiguous forms, case errors are common in child language; when percentages are low,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Input, Figurative Language, Child Language
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Theakston, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
LChildren pass through a stage in development when they produce utterances that contain auxiliary BE ("he's playing") and utterances where auxiliary BE is omitted ("he playing"). One explanation that has been put forward to explain this phenomenon is the presence of questions in the input that model S-V word order (Theakston, Lieven & Tomasello,…
Descriptors: Word Order, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Linguistic Input
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Diesendruck, Gil; Shatz, Marilyn – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Investigated whether and when children establish various semantic relations between old and new words. Fifty 2-year olds were taught labels for objects previously referred to by an overextended term. Findings are discussed in light of theories of lexical development, particularly with regard to conceptualizations of constraints on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Linguistic Theory, Perceptual Development
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Saxton, Matthew – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Presents an alternative definition of negative evidence, based on the idea that the unique discourse structure created in the juxtaposition of child error and adult correct form can reveal the child in contrast or conflict between the two forms. Findings reveal that children reproduced the correct irregular model more often and persisted with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
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Rondal, Jean A.; Cession, Anne – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Input language addressed to language-learning children was analyzed to assess the quality of the semantic-syntactic correspondence posited by the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis. This correspondence was strong--objects were labeled with nouns, actions with verbs, attributes with adjectives--and may serve to make children's construction of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Input
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Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika; Naigles, Letitia R. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study investigated the extent to which the nature of verb input accounts for the order in which children acquire verbs. Subjects were 57 mothers and their Stage I children. Results suggest that the effect of syntactic diversity in input supports the "syntactic bootstrapping" account of how children use structural information to learn new verbs'…
Descriptors: Child Language, Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
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Joseph, Kate L.; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Many recent generativist models attribute grammatical knowledge to young children on the basis that children's language patterns the same way as the target adult language. It has been proposed that the child acquires this knowledge early on in development by a process of parameter setting. Wexler (1996) presents the "Very Early Parameter Setting…
Descriptors: French, Morphemes, Language Usage, Grammar
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