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Direct linkYukun Yu; Naomi Havron; Cynthia Fisher – Language Learning, 2025
In a recent study, preschoolers adapted their syntactic expectations about a familiar phrase in French; this adaptation affected later word learning. In two experiments, we probed the generality of this finding by replicating the experiment and extending it to a different expression in English. We examined the ambiguous phrase "the…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Preschool Children, Nouns
Frizelle, Pauline; Thompson, Paul; Duta, Mihaela; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Language Learning, 2019
We examined the effect of two methods of assessment--multiple-choice sentence-picture matching and an animated sentence-verification task--on typically developing children's understanding of relative clauses. A sample of children between the ages of 3 years 6 months and 4 years 11 months took part in the study (N = 103). Results indicated that (a)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Testing, Syntax, Comparative Analysis
Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning, 2021
A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Input, Inferences
Gandolfi, Elena; Viterbori, Paola – Language Learning, 2020
In this study, we explored the role of emerging inhibitory control skills in language acquisition in 62 typically developing children aged 24-32 months and investigated whether early inhibitory control skills are longitudinally associated with language outcome. Specifically, we focused on two different inhibitory processes that develop…
Descriptors: Grammar, Mothers, Educational Attainment, Inhibition
Aarts, Rian; Demir-Vegter, Serpil; Kurvers, Jeanne; Henrichs, Lotte – Language Learning, 2016
The current study examined academic language (AL) input of mothers and teachers to 15 monolingual Dutch and 15 bilingual Turkish-Dutch 4- to 6-year-old children and its relationships with the children's language development. At two times, shared book reading was videotaped and analyzed for academic features: lexical diversity, syntactic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Linguistic Input, Mothers, Indo European Languages
Peer reviewedVivas, Eleonora – Language Learning, 1996
Reports on an experimental investigation of the effects of a systematic, story-reading-aloud program on some language variables in preschool and first-grade children. Results indicate that both age groups significantly increased their language comprehension and expressions when listening to stories read aloud, either at home or at school. (25…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Experimental Groups
