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Acquiring Constraints on Morphosyntactic Variation: Children's Spanish Subject Pronoun Expression
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Shin, Naomi Lapidus – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Constraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Children, Spanish
A Statistical Model of the Grammatical Choices in Child Production of Dative Sentences
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de Marneffe, Marie-Catherine; Grimm, Scott; Arnon, Inbal; Kirby, Susannah; Bresnan, Joan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
Focusing on children's production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether children's choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults' choices, and whether, like adults, they are sensitive to multiple factors simultaneously. We do so by using mixed-effect regression models to analyse child and child-directed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Child Language, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Toward Validation of a Minimal Competence Core of Morphosyntax for African American Children
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Stockman, Ida J.; Guillory, Barbara; Seibert, Marilyn; Boult, Johanna – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: The authors set out to determine (a) whether African American children's spontaneous spoken language met use criteria for a revised minimal competence core with original and added morphosyntactic patterns at different geographical locations, and (b) whether pass/fail status on this core was differentiated on other criterion measures of…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Child Language
Not All Lexical Access Tasks Are Created Equal: Lexical Development between Three and Five
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Isacoff, Nora M.; Stromswold, Karin – First Language, 2014
Lexical access tasks are designed to measure efficiency of lexical access, but task demands and methods vary greatly. Many lexical access tasks do not account for confounding factors including competence in other linguistic abilities. In this study, preschoolers were given two lexical access tasks. In the single-category naming (SCN) task,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Naming, Language Tests, Syntax
A Long-Term Predictive Validity Study: Can the CDI Short Form be Used to Predict Language and Early Literacy Skills Four Years Later?
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Can, Dilara Deniz; Ginsburg-Block, Marika; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This longitudinal study examined the predictive validity of the MacArthur Communicative Developmental Inventories-Short Form (CDI-SF), a parent report questionnaire about children's language development (Fenson, Pethick, Renda, Cox, Dale & Reznick, 2000). Data were first gathered from parents on the CDI-SF vocabulary scores for seventy-six…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Word Recognition, Longitudinal Studies
The Dynamics of Syntax Acquisition: Facilitation between Syntactic Structures
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Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Keren, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2011
This paper sets out to show how facilitation between different clause structures operates over time in syntax acquisition. The phenomenon of facilitation within given structures has been widely documented, yet inter-structure facilitation has rarely been reported so far. Our findings are based on the naturalistic production corpora of six toddlers…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Computational Linguistics