Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 8 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 22 |
Descriptor
| Child Development | 41 |
| Child Language | 41 |
| Children | 41 |
| Language Acquisition | 25 |
| Language Research | 10 |
| Cognitive Development | 7 |
| Language Skills | 7 |
| Foreign Countries | 6 |
| Age Differences | 5 |
| Cognitive Ability | 5 |
| Developmental Stages | 5 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Gelman, Susan A. | 2 |
| Abdi, Herve | 1 |
| Alamillo, Asela Reig | 1 |
| Andersson, Theodore | 1 |
| Barner, David | 1 |
| Beeman, William | 1 |
| Bonnet, Philippe | 1 |
| Botteron, Kelly | 1 |
| Bowler, Peter | 1 |
| Boyd, Brian | 1 |
| Brubacher, Sonja P. | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
Education Level
| Early Childhood Education | 3 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
| Preschool Education | 1 |
Audience
| Parents | 1 |
| Support Staff | 1 |
Location
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| Slovenia | 1 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 1 |
| United Kingdom (London) | 1 |
| United States | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Child Behavior Checklist | 1 |
| Early Childhood Longitudinal… | 1 |
| Mean Length of Utterance | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Direct linkHashmi, Salim; Vanderwert, Ross E.; Paine, Amy L.; Gerson, Sarah A. – Developmental Science, 2022
Doll play provides opportunities for children to practice social skills by creating imaginary worlds, taking others' perspectives, and talking about others' internal states. Previous research using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) found a region over the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) was more active during solo doll play…
Descriptors: Toys, Play, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Competence
Barner, David – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Perceptual representations of objects and approximate magnitudes are often invoked as building blocks that children combine to acquire the positive integers. Systems of numerical perception are either assumed to contain the logical foundations of arithmetic innately, or to supply the basis for their induction. I propose an alternative to this…
Descriptors: Numbers, Perception, Children, Learning
Labotka, Danielle; Gelman, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Although children's use of speech registers such as Baby Talk is well documented, little is known about their understanding of Foreigner Talk, a register addressed to non-native speakers. In Study 1, 4- to 8-year-old children and adults (N = 125) heard 4 registers (Foreigner Talk, Baby Talk, Peer Talk, and Teacher Talk) and predicted who would…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Child Language, Speech Communication, Language Styles
D'Apice, Katrina; Latham, Rachel M.; von Stumm, Sophie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Although early life experiences of language and parenting are critical for children's development, large home observation studies of both domains are scarce in the psychological literature, presumably because of their considerable costs to the participants and researchers. Here, we used digital audio-recorders to unobtrusively observe 107…
Descriptors: Naturalistic Observation, Child Language, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Boyd, Brian; Clements, Mark; Rehg, James; Elison, Jed T.; Paterson, Sarah; Parish-Morris, Julia; Chappell, J. Chad; Hazlett, Heather C.; Emerson, Robert W.; Botteron, Kelly; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph – Child Development, 2018
Children's early language environments are related to later development. Little is known about this association in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often experience language delays or have ASD. Fifty-nine 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk for ASD contributed full-day in-home language recordings.…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Environmental Influences
Jerger, Susan; Damian, Markus F.; Tye-Murrey, Nancy; Abdi, Herve – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Adults use vision to perceive low-fidelity speech; yet how children acquire this ability is not well understood. The literature indicates that children show reduced sensitivity to visual speech from kindergarten to adolescence. We hypothesized that this pattern reflects the effects of complex tasks and a growth period with harder-to-utilize…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Visual Perception, Preschool Children, Children
Download full textMarjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
Child gender has been proved to affect toddlers'/children's language development in several studies, but its effect was not found to be stable across different ages or various aspects of language ability. The effect of gender on toddler's, children's and adolescents' language ability was examined in the present meta-analysis of ten Slovenian…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Meta Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Alamillo, Asela Reig; Colletta, Jean-Marc; Guidetti, Michele – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This article addresses the effect of communicative activity on the use of language and gesture by school-age children. The present study examined oral narratives and explanations produced by children aged six and ten years on the basis of several linguistic and gestural measures. Results showed that age affects both gestural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Children
Mayo, Jessica; Chlebowski, Colby; Fein, Deborah A.; Eigsti, Inge-Marie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Acquiring useful language by age 5 has been identified as a strong predictor of positive outcomes in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This study examined the relationship between age of language acquisition and later functioning in children with ASD (n = 119). First word acquisition at a range of ages was probed for its…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Autism, Language Acquisition, Age Differences
Foppolo, Francesca; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Chierchia, Gennaro – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Children's pragmatic competence in deriving conversational implicatures (and scalar implicatures in particular) offers an intriguing standpoint to explore how developmental, methodological, and purely theoretical perspectives interact and feed each other. In this paper, we focus mainly on developmental and methodological issues, showing that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Value Judgment, Research Design, Child Language
Rowe, Meredith L.; Denmark, Nicole; Harden, Brenda Jones; Stapleton, Laura M. – Infant and Child Development, 2016
This study investigated the role of parenting knowledge of infant development in children's subsequent language and pre-literacy skills among White, Black and Latino families of varying socioeconomic status. Data come from 6,150 participants in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort. Mothers' knowledge of infant development was…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Parent Child Relationship, Literacy, Hispanic Americans
Herr-Israel, Ellen; McCune, Lorraine – Journal of Child Language, 2011
In the period between sole use of single words and majority use of multiword utterances, children draw from their existing productive capability and conversational input to facilitate the eventual outcome of majority use of multiword utterances. During this period, children use word combinations that are not yet mature multiword utterances, termed…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Mothers, Language Acquisition
Thom, Emily Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation tests a new account of rapid word learning and vocabulary growth that these processes develop as the result of attentional biases to the features of a category that are relevant to labeling/categorization, built as the result of word-learning experience within each category. Study 1 demonstrated that children's vocabulary size…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Prediction, Children
Taylor, Talbot J. – Language Sciences, 2011
Despite the growing body of integrationist literature on the study of language and on a wide range of language-related fields of inquiry, there is as yet no integrationist investigation of the field of language acquisition. This paper argues for the need of an integrationist study of what children learn about language and of how they learn it.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Brubacher, Sonja P.; Roberts, Kim P.; Powell, Martine – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Children (N = 157) 4 to 8 years old participated 1 time (single) or 4 times (repeated) in an interactive event. Across each condition, half were questioned a week later about the only or a specific occurrence of the event ("depth first") and then about what usually happens. Half were prompted in the reverse order ("breadth first"). Children with…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Mathematical Models, Prediction, Regression (Statistics)
