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Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Berens, Sam; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Walker, Sarah A.; Henderson, Lisa-Marie – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Children's vocabulary ability at school entry is highly variable and predictive of later language and literacy outcomes. Sleep is potentially useful in understanding and explaining that variability, with sleep patterns being predictive of global trajectories of language acquisition. Here, we looked to replicate and extend these findings. Data from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Vocabulary, Sleep, Predictor Variables
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Franco, Fabia; Suttora, Chiara; Spinelli, Maria; Kozar, Iryna; Fasolo, Mirco – Journal of Child Language, 2021
This research revealed that the frequency of reported parent-infant singing interactions predicted 6-month-old infants' performance in laboratory music experiments and mediated their language development in the second year. At 6 months, infants (n = 36) were tested using a preferential listening procedure assessing their sustained attention to…
Descriptors: Singing, Parent Child Relationship, Music, Preferences
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Casla, Marta; Méndez-Cabezas, Celia; Montero, Ignacio; Murillo, Eva; Nieva, Silvia; Rodríguez, Jessica – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The role of children's verbal repetition of parents' utterances on vocabulary growth has been well documented (Masur, 1999). Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed adults' and children's spontaneous verbal repetition around the second birthday distinguishing between the types of repetition. We analyzed longitudinally Spanish-speaking parent-child…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Repetition, Parents, Vocabulary Development
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Havron, Naomi; Arnon, Inbal – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Multiword units play an important role in language learning and use. It was proposed that learning from such units can facilitate mastery of certain grammatical relations, and that children and adults differ in their use of multiword units during learning, contributing to their varying language-learning trajectories. Accordingly, adults learn…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
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Raneri, Daniele; Von Holzen, Katie; Newman, Rochelle; Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Aims: Although IDS is typically described as slower than adult-directed speech (ADS), potential impacts of slower speech on language development have not been examined. We explored whether IDS speech rates in 42 mother-infant dyads at four time periods predicted children's language outcomes at two years. Method: We correlated IDS speech rate with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
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Younesian, Sharifeh; Eivers, Areana; Shahaeian, Ameneh; Sullivan, Karen; Gilmore, Linda – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Previous research has shown that the quality of mother-child interactions between pre-term children and their mothers tends to be poorer than that of full-term children and their mothers (Forcada-Guex, Pierrehumbert, Borghini, Moessinger & Muller-Nix, 2006). Mothers of pre-term children are less responsive and more intrusive in interactions…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interaction, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles
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Baker, Elisabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit --s ("caiste" [approximately equal to] "caístes"). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Grammar, Speech Communication
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Lüke, Carina; Leinweber, Juliane; Ritterfeld, Ute – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Both walking abilities and pointing gestures in infants are associated with later language skills. Within this longitudinal study we investigate the relationship between walk onset and first observed index-finger points and their respectively predictive value for later language skills. We assume that pointing as a motor as well as a communicative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Nonverbal Communication, Language Skills, Predictor Variables
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Treat, Amy E.; Sheffield Morris, Amanda; Hays-Grudo, Jennifer; Williamson, Amy C. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study investigated the associations between maternal depression when infants were 3 to 11 months old (M = 6 months), and positive parenting behaviors when children were between 12 and 22 months (M = 17 months) and the home language environment assessed when children were 18 to 28 months old (M = 23.5 months) in a sample of 29 low-income…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Correlation, Infants
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Carmiol, Ana M.; Matthews, Danielle; Rodríguez-Villagra, Odir A. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Asking children to clarify themselves promotes their ability to uniquely identify objects in referential communication tasks. However, little is known about whether parents ask preschoolers for clarification during interactions and, if so, how. Study 1 explored how mothers clarify their preschoolers' ambiguous descriptions of the characters in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Preschool Children, Child Language, Mothers
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Cadime, Irene; Moreira, Célia S.; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Silva, Carla; Ribeiro, Iolanda; Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The goals of this study were to analyze the growth and stability of vocabulary, mean length of the three longest utterances (MLLUw), and sentence complexity in European Portuguese-speaking children aged 1;4-2;6, to explore differences in growth as a function of personal and family-related variables, and to investigate the inter-relationships among…
Descriptors: Grammar, Portuguese, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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MacRoy-Higgins, Michelle; Montemarano, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine attention allocation in toddlers who were late talkers and toddlers with typical language development while they were engaged in a word-learning task in order to determine if differences exist. Two-year-olds who were late talkers (11) and typically developing toddlers (11) were taught twelve novel…
Descriptors: Child Language, Toddlers, Attention, Delayed Speech
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Bosma, Evelyn; Blom, Elma – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research has shown that in a minority-majority language context, the quantity of language input at home is more important for the development of the minority language than for the development of the majority language. In the current study, we examined whether the same holds true for the frequency of specific language activities at home.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
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Blom, Elma; Bosma, Evelyn – Journal of Child Language, 2016
In this study, age of onset (AoO) was investigated in five- and six-year-old bilingual Frisian-Dutch children. AoO to Dutch ranged between zero and four and had a positive effect on Dutch receptive vocabulary size, but hardly influenced the children's accurate use of Dutch inflection. The influence of AoO on vocabulary was more prominent than the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism, Age
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Szagun, Gisela; Schramm, Satyam A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The aim of the present study was to analyze the relative influence of age at implantation, parental expansions, and child language internal factors on grammatical progress in children with cochlear implants (CI). Data analyses used two longitudinal corpora of spontaneous speech samples, one with twenty-two and one with twenty-six children,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Assistive Technology, Age, Language Acquisition
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