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Reciprocal Influences between Maternal Language and Children's Language and Cognitive Development in Low-Income Families
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Song, Lulu; Spier, Elizabeth T.; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine S. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
We examined reciprocal associations between early maternal language use and children's language and cognitive development in seventy ethnically diverse, low-income families. Mother-child dyads were videotaped when children were aged 2;0 and 3;0. Video transcripts were analyzed for quantity and lexical diversity of maternal and child language.…
Descriptors: Low Income, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Mothers
Vocabulary Development in Norwegian L1 and L2 Learners in the Kindergarten-School Transition
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Karlsen, Jannicke; Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas; Lervåg, Arne – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study examined the vocabulary development of Norwegian second language (L2) learners with Urdu/Punjabi as their first language (L1) at two time-points from kindergarten to primary school, and compared it to the vocabulary development of monolingual Norwegian children. Using path models, the associations between number of picture books in the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Norwegian, Second Language Learning, Native Language
The Role of Maternal Gesturing in Conversations with One-Year-Olds.
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Schnur, Elizabeth; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Four children were videotaped playing with their mothers, first in a situation with gestures, and then in a situation without gestures. Results showed that maternal gestures have more of a role in maintaining attention and flow of interaction for young children than they do in providing specific cues to the grammar the child is acquiring. (SL)
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Infants
Brown & Hanlon Revisisted: Mother's Sensitivity to Ungrammatical Forms.
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Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1984
Expands on study by Brown and Hanlon which showed that parents seemed more attuned to semantic value of their child's speech rather than grammatical form. However, this more recent study suggests that language learning environment presents subtle cues, distinguishing between well-formed and ill-formed sentences, evidenced by mothers' inclinations…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Grammar, Language Acquisition
Semantic Roles and Residual Grammatical Categories in Mother and Child Speech: Who Tunes into Whom?
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Retherford, Kristine S.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1981
Analyzes mother and child speech in free play conversation for different semantic and syntactic categories. Based on the study of changes taking place over time in children's use of semantic categories, argues against the hypothesis that the mother's speech is gradually adjusted to the child's performance. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Functional Changes in Early Child Language: The Appearance of References to the Past and of Explanations.
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Veneziano, Edy; Sinclair, Hermina – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Explores spontaneous speech samples from children during the period from one word to multiword utterances in interaction with their French-speaking mothers in order to study the appearance and development of functional changes in their use of language. A longitudinal study of four children revealed the beginnings of references to the past and the…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis