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Direct linkMonaghan, Padraic; Rowland, Caroline F. – Language Learning, 2017
Historically, first language acquisition research was a painstaking process of observation, requiring the laborious hand coding of children's linguistic productions, followed by the generation of abstract theoretical proposals for how the developmental process unfolds. Recently, the ability to collect large-scale corpora of children's language…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Second Language Learning
Jarosz, Gaja; Calamaro, Shira; Zentz, Jason – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
This article examines phonological development and its relationship to input statistics. Using novel data from a longitudinal corpus of spontaneous child speech in Polish, we evaluate and compare the predictions of a variety of input-based phonotactic models for syllable structure acquisition. We find that many commonly examined input statistics…
Descriptors: Polish, Syllables, Phonological Awareness, Longitudinal Studies
Poulain, Tanja; Brauer, Jens – First Language, 2018
This study explores the developmental change of mother-child interactions in order to investigate which aspects of maternal behavior affect children's speech production. To this end, the interactions between 79 German-speaking mothers and their two- or five-year-old children were observed at two time points (12 months apart) and in two interactive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables
Longobardi, Emiddia; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Spataro, Pietro; Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Because of its structural characteristics, specifically the prevalence of verb types in infant-directed speech and frequent pronoun-dropping, the Italian language offers an attractive opportunity to investigate the predictive effects of input frequency and positional salience on children's acquisition of nouns and verbs. We examined this…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Nouns, Verbs
Wang, Xiao-lei; Plotka, Raquel – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
Idiom comprehension and production reflect a child's language competence. Research suggests that there is a positive relationship between children's reading comprehension skills and their idiom understanding. This study examines whether adult verbal scaffolding, in conjunction with the deliberate use of iconic gestures, can facilitate young…
Descriptors: Chinese, Bilingualism, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language)
Tribushinina, Elena; van den Bergh, Huub; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Aksu-Koç, Ayhan; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Hrzica, Gordana; Korecky-Kröll, Katharina; Noccetti, Sabrina; Dressler, Wolfgang – First Language, 2013
Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous speech also has an effect on adjective use by the child. The authors studied adjective production in longitudinal speech samples from 16 children (16-36 months) acquiring eight…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Acquisition, Correlation, Linguistic Input
