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Lany, Jill; Shoaib, Amber – Journal of Child Language, 2020
There is considerable controversy over the factors that shape infants' developing knowledge of grammar. Work with artificial languages suggests that infants' ability to track statistical regularities within the speech they hear could, in principle, support grammatical development. However, little work has tested whether infants' performance on…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Infants, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Hong, Yea-Ji; Yi, Soon-Hyung – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The purpose of the current study was to examine whether oral language skills moderate the effect of Korean phonological awareness (PA) on English PA for Korean preschoolers in the initial stage of learning English as a second language. The study participants comprised 81 five- to six-year-old Korean preschoolers attending Korean-medium preschools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Phonological Awareness, English (Second Language)
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Erdener, Dogu; Burnham, Denis – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Despite the body of research on auditory-visual speech perception in infants and schoolchildren, development in the early childhood period remains relatively uncharted. In this study, English-speaking children between three and four years of age were investigated for: (i) the development of visual speech perception--lip-reading and visual…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Visual Perception, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
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Goodrich, J. Marc; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Kleuver, Cherie G.; Farver, Joann M. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
In this study we evaluated the predictive validity of conceptual scoring. Two independent samples of Spanish-speaking language minority preschoolers (Sample 1: N = 96, mean age = 54.51 months, 54.3% male; Sample 2: N = 116, mean age = 60ยท70 months, 56.0% male) completed measures of receptive, expressive, and definitional vocabulary in their first…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Transfer of Training, Translation, Language Minorities