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McMillen, Stephanie; Anaya, Jissel B.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Barquin, Elisa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Research has investigated how lexical-semantic and participant factors impact word learning in young children and adults. However, limited information pertaining to expressive vocabulary development exists for school-aged bilinguals--particularly those with developmental language disorder (DLD). Cross-linguistic differences in the semantic…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Semantics, Vocabulary Development
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Aguert, Marc; Laval, Virginie; Le Bigot, Ludovic; Bernicot, Josie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: This study was aimed at determining the role of prosody and situational context in children's understanding of expressive utterances. Which one of these 2 cues will help children grasp the speaker's intention? Do children exhibit a "contextual bias" whereby they ignore prosody, such as the "lexical bias" found in other studies (M. Friend…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Cues, Speech Acts, Intention
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Ackerman, Brian P. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
Children's use of contextual discrepancy and stressed intonation to interpret literal form and illocutionary function in the use of ironic utterances was examined in two experiments, each using first- and third-grade children and college-age adults. Results suggest a complex relationship between literal form and illocutionary function in…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills