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Sultana, Asifa – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Crosslinguistic research into language development reveals that typological features determine children's developmental patterns to a large extent. The present study examines the early morphological development in the verb inflectional paradigm in Bangla. Data from the first 6 months since the emergence of two-word combinations were collected from…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition
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Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2013
In this article we report two studies: a detailed longitudinal analysis of errors in "wh"-questions from six German-learning children (age 2 ; 0-3 ; 0) and an analysis of the prosodic characteristics of "wh"-questions in German child-directed speech. The results of the first study demonstrate that German-learning children…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Young Children, German, Language Acquisition
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Phillips, Colin – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
The 1990s witnessed a major expansion in research on children's morphosyntactic development, due largely to the availability of computer-searchable corpora of spontaneous speech in the CHILDES database. This led to a rapid emergence of parallel findings in different languages, with much attention devoted to the widely attested difficulties in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech, Verbs, Syntax
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Szagun, Gisela; Stumper, Barbara; Sondag, Nina; Franik, Melanie – Journal of Child Language, 2007
The acquisition of noun gender on articles was studied in a sample of 21 young German-speaking children. Longitudinal spontaneous speech data were used. Data analysis is based on 22 two-hourly speech samples per child from 6 children between 1 ; 4 and 3 ; 8 and on 5 two-hourly speech samples per child from 15 children between 1 ; 4 and 2 ; 10. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonology, Nouns, Data Analysis
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Rispoli, Matthew – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Data from a transcript database of 12 children collected in 1-hour samples every month from 1;0 to 3;0 support the hypothesis that there should be strong differences in the frequency and types of errors between pronouns with suppletive nominatives and those without. The suppletive nominative forms "I" and "she" are blocked from overextension in a…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Child Language, Databases, Error Analysis (Language)
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So, Lydia K. H.; Dodd, Barbara J. – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Describes the phoneme repertoires and phonological error patterns used by Cantonese-speaking children, as well as a longitudinal study of tone acquisition by four children. The developmental error patterns used by more than 10% of children are reported as common in other languages. Specific rules associated with Cantonese phonology are identified.…
Descriptors: Cantonese, Child Language, Consonants, Error Analysis (Language)