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Van Dijk, Chantal; Van Wonderen, Elise; Koutamanis, Elly; Koostra, Gerrit Jan; Dijkstra, Ton; Unsworth, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear. In this meta-analysis, we measured the effect size of cross-linguistic influence and systematically assessed its predictors in 750 simultaneous and early…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Dominance, Children, Language Acquisition
Sim, Jasper Hong; Post, Brechtje – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study examines the effects of input quality on early phonological acquisition by investigating whether interadult variation in specific phonetic properties in the input is reflected in the production of their children. We analysed the English coda stop release patterns in the spontaneous speech of fourteen mothers and compared them with the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries, Mothers
Paradis, Johanne – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with respect to the sources of variation in their language learning environments, as well as the wide individual variation in their language abilities. Such heterogeneity in both individual difference factors and language abilities argues for the importance of an…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Bilingual Education, Native Language, Language Variation
Arnon, Inbal – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The study of language acquisition has a long and contentious history: researchers disagree on what drives this process, the relevant data, and the interesting questions. Here, I outline the Starting Big approach to language learning, which emphasizes the role of multiword units in language, and of coarse-to-fine processes in learning. I outline…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Learning Processes, Semantics
Helen Engemann – Journal of Child Language, 2024
Previous research on the L1 acquisition of motion event expression suggests that mapping multiple semantic components onto syntactic units is associated with greater difficulties in verb-framed than in satellite-framed languages, because the former require more complex structures (using subordination). This study investigated the impact of this…
Descriptors: French, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, English
Chondrogianni, Vicky – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Paradis' (2023) keynote article is a timely documentation of the ongoing shift in focus within childhood bilingualism research from investigating the factors that modulate majority or second language (ML/L2) attainment (Chondrogianni & Marinis, 2011) to understanding the sources of variation that lead to minority heritage language (HL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Learning Processes, Language Skills
Riches, Nick; Letts, Carolyn; Awad, Hadeel; Ramsey, Rachel; Dabrowska, Ewa – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Collocations, e.g., apples and pears, hard worker, constitute an important avenue of linguistic enquiry straddling both grammar and the lexicon. They are sensitive to language experience, with adult L2 learners and children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) exhibiting poor collocational knowledge. The current study piloted a novel…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Jasper Hong Sim; Brechtje Post – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Linguistic input in multi-lingual/-cultural contexts is highly variable. We examined the production of English and Malay laterals by fourteen early bilingual preschoolers in Singapore who were exposed to several allophones of coda laterals: Malay caregivers use predominantly clear-l in English and Malay, but their English coda laterals can also be…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Child Language, Indonesian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship
Kremin, Lena V.; Alves, Julia; Orena, Adriel John; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In a pre-registered study, we identified instances of code-switching in day-long at-home audio recordings of 21 French-English bilingual families in Montreal, Canada, who provided recordings…
Descriptors: Infants, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Parent Child Relationship
Chen, Hui; Labertonière, Dahliane; Cheung, Hintat; Nazzi, Thierry – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Infants attune to their native language during the first two years of life, as attested by decreases in the processing of nonnative phonological sounds and reductions in the range of possible sounds accepted as labels for native words. The present study shows that French-learning infants aged 1;8 can learn new words in an unfamiliar language,…
Descriptors: Infants, Native Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Stadtmiller, Elizabeth; Lindner, Katrin; Süss, Assunta; Gagarina, Natalia – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In error analyses using sentence repetition data, most authors focus on word types of omissions. The current study considers serial order in omission patterns independent of functional categories. Data was collected from Russian and German sentence repetition tasks performed by 53 five-year-old bilingual children. Number and positions of word…
Descriptors: Russian, German, Language Acquisition, Error Analysis (Language)
Limia, Valery; Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Hoff, Erika – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Monolingual children identify referents uniquely in gesture before they do so with words, and parents translate these gestures into words. Children benefit from these translations, acquiring the words that their parents translated earlier than the ones that are not translated. Are bilingual children as likely as monolingual children to identify…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Parent Child Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development
Setoh, Peipei; Cheng, Michelle; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Is noun dominance in early lexical acquisition a widespread or a language-specific phenomenon? Thirty Singaporean bilingual English-Mandarin learning toddlers and their mothers were observed in a mother-child play interaction. For both English and Mandarin, toddlers' speech and reported vocabulary contained more nouns than verbs across book…
Descriptors: Nouns, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hervé, Coralie; Serratrice, Ludovica – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This paper reports the preliminary results of a study examining the role of structural overlap, language exposure, and language use on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilingual first language acquisition. We focus on the longitudinal development of determiners in a corpus of two French-English children between the ages of 2;4 and 3;7. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, English, Language Acquisition
Kehoe, Margaret; Havy, Mélanie – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examines the influence of language-internal (frequency and complexity of linguistic properties), language-external (percent French input, socioeconomic status (SES), and gender), and lexical factors (size of total and French vocabulary) on the phonological production abilities of monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children, aged…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonology, Language Acquisition, French