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Kupisch, Tanja; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Westergaard, Marit – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigate German-Russian bilingual children's sensitivity to formal and semantic cues when assigning gender to nouns in German. Across languages, young children have been shown to primarily rely on phonological cues, whereas sensitivity to semantic and syntactic cues increases with age. With its semi-transparent gender assignment system,…
Descriptors: Phonology, German, Russian, Language Acquisition
Do, Youngah; Mooney, Shannon – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This article examines whether children alter a variable phonological pattern in an artificial language towards a phonetically-natural form. We address acquisition of a variable rounding harmony pattern through the use of two artificial languages; one with dominant harmony pattern, and another with dominant non-harmony pattern. Overall, children…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Phonology, Learning Processes
Moscati, Vincenzo; Rizzi, Luigi; Vottari, Ilenia; Chilosi, Anna Maria; Salvadorini, Renata; Guasti, Maria Teresa – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Agreement is a morphosyntactic dependency which is sensitive to the hierarchical structure of the clause and is constrained by the structural distance that separates the elements involved in this relation. In this paper we present two experiments, providing new evidence that Italian-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), as…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Phrase Structure, Italian
Geffen, Susan; Mintz, Toben H. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
In many languages, declaratives and interrogatives differ in word order properties, and in syntactic organization more broadly. Thus, in order to learn the distinct syntactic properties of the two sentence types, learners must first be able to distinguish them using non-syntactic information. Prosodic information is often assumed to be a useful…
Descriptors: Infants, Suprasegmentals, Mothers, Speech Communication
Hwang, Hyesung G.; Markson, Lori – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Children categorize native-accented speakers as local and non-native-accented speakers as foreign, suggesting they use accent (i.e., phonological proficiency) to determine social group membership. However, it is unclear if accent is the strongest--AND ONLY--group marker children use to determine social group membership, or whether other aspects of…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, English
Royle, Phaedra; Stine, Isabelle – Journal of Child Language, 2013
We studied spontaneous speech noun-phrase production in eight French-speaking children with SLI (aged 5;0 to 5; 1) and controls matched on age (4;10 to 5;11) or MLU (aged 3;2 to 4;1). Results showed that children with SLI prefer simple DP structures to complex ones while producing more substitution and omission errors than controls. The three…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, French, Language Impairments, Nouns
Zamuner, Tania S. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Within the subfields of linguistics, traditional approaches tend to examine different phenomena in isolation. As Stoel-Gammon (this issue) correctly states, there is little interaction between the subfields. However, for a more comprehensive understanding of language acquisition in general and, more specifically, lexical and phonological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
Zhou, Peng; Su, Yi; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Zhan, Likan – Journal of Child Language, 2012
How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research. In the present study two experiments were conducted to investigate four- to five-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's sensitivity to prosody in ambiguity resolution. Experiment…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Language Research, Child Language
Mykhaylyk, Roksolana – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study examines the word order phenomenon of optional scrambling in Ukrainian. It aims to test factors such as semantic features and object type that have been shown to affect scrambling in other languages. Forty-one children between 2 ; 7 and 6 ; 0, and twenty adult speakers participated in an elicited production experiment. The picture…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonology, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
Chevrot, Jean-Pierre; Dugua, Celine; Fayol, Michel – Journal of Child Language, 2009
In the linguistics field, liaison in French is interpreted as an indicator of interactions between the various levels of language organization. The current study examines the same issue while adopting a developmental perspective. Five experiments involving children aged two to six years provide evidence for a developmental scenario which…
Descriptors: Phonology, Dictionaries, French, Child Language
Demuth, Katherine; McCullough, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Researchers have long been puzzled by children's variable omission of grammatical morphemes, often attributing this to a lack of semantic or syntactic competence. Recent studies suggest that some of this variability may be due to phonological constraints. This paper explored this issue further by conducting a longitudinal study of five…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, English, Form Classes (Languages)

Peters, Ann M. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Reviews what is known about fillers, proposes a reasonably unified set of criteria for identifying them, and suggests an approach that will promote their further study. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Grammar, Language Acquisition

Dabrowska, Ewa; Demuth, Katherine; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Echols, Catharine H.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Lleo, Conxita; Lopez-Ornat, Susana; Menn, Lise; Feldman, Andrea; Radford, Andrew; Veneziano, Edy; Vihman, Marilyn May; Velleman, Shelley L. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Various commentaries are included in response to an article on filler syllables and their status in emerging grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Generalization, Grammar

Donahue, Mavis – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Describes the presence of a phonological selection strategy and consonant harmony rule in one child's developing phonological system. Evidence suggests that this constant harmony constraint operated across morpheme boundaries, causing a delay in the onset of two-word utterances and influencing the selection of words that could occur in word…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Child Language, Consonants