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Liu, Siying; Sun, Renji – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Language is conventional because word meanings are shared among different people. The present study examined Chinese infants' understanding of the language convention that different people should generalize words in the same way. Thirteen-month-old Mandarin-speaking Chinese infants repeatedly viewed a speaker providing a novel label for a target…
Descriptors: Infants, Mandarin Chinese, Generalization, Language Usage
Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render case marking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We also investigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case-marking cues to interpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. A group of six- to…
Descriptors: Greek, Native Language, Children, Preadolescents
De Ruiter, Laura E.; Lemen, Heather C. P.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Brandt, Silke; Theakston, Anna L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
We analysed both structural and functional aspects of sentences containing the four adverbials "after", "before", "because", and "if" in two dense corpora of parent-child interactions from two British English-acquiring children (2;00-4;07). In comparing mothers' and children's usage we separate out the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Parent Child Relationship, English, Comparative Analysis
Antonijevic, Stanislava; Muckley, Sarah Ann; Muller, Nicole – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Irish is a rapidly changing minority language spoken as the main community language in some areas of the officially Irish-speaking "Gaeltacht" regions in Ireland. We analyse narratives from 17 parent-child dyads, living in one such area. All children, aged 3-6;4, had high exposure to the local variety of Irish. The input quality was…
Descriptors: Irish, Morphology (Languages), Language Minorities, Parent Child Relationship
Setoh, Peipei; Cheng, Michelle; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Is noun dominance in early lexical acquisition a widespread or a language-specific phenomenon? Thirty Singaporean bilingual English-Mandarin learning toddlers and their mothers were observed in a mother-child play interaction. For both English and Mandarin, toddlers' speech and reported vocabulary contained more nouns than verbs across book…
Descriptors: Nouns, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sun, He; Yussof, Nurul; Vijayakumar, Poorani; Lai, Gabrielle; O'Brien, Beth Ann; Ong, Quan He – Journal of Child Language, 2020
To code-switch or not to code-switch? This is a dilemma for many bilingual language teachers. In this study, the influence of teachers' CS on bilingual children's language and cognitive development is explored within heritage language (HL) classes in Singapore. Specifically, the relationship between children's language output, vocabulary…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Students, Native Language
Sarvasy, Hannah S. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The 'root infinitive' phenomenon in child speech is known from major languages such as Dutch. In this case study, a child acquiring the Papuan language Nungon in a remote village setting in Papua New Guinea uses two different non-finite verb forms as predicates of main clauses ('root' contexts) between ages 2;3 and 3;3. The first root non-finite…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Verbs, Rural Areas, Child Language
Rydland, Veslemøy; Grøver, Vibeke – Journal of Child Language, 2020
From a socio-cultural perspective, language offers a means for children to communicate with and learn from others through interaction: language is the medium through which young children are provided cognitive, social, and emotional support in interactions with caregivers, siblings, and peers; and children characterized as dual language learners…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Sociocultural Patterns
Henke, Ryan E. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study presents the first investigation of the development of possessive constructions in Northern East Cree, a polysynthetic language indigenous to Canada. It examines transcripts from naturalistic recording sessions involving one adult and one child, from age 2;01.12 to 3;08.24. Findings reveal that, despite the frequency of possessive…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Child Language
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth; Christensen, Rikke Vang – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study focuses on the relationship between content elements and mental-state language in narratives from twenty-seven children with autism (ASD), twelve children with language impairment (LI), and thirty typically developing children (TD). The groups did not differ on chronological age (10;6-14;0) and non-verbal cognitive skills, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Children, Language Impairments
Sun, He; Ng, Siew Chin; O'Brien, Beth Ann; Fritzsche, Tom – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Child characteristics, family factors, and preschool factors are all found to affect the rate of bilingual children's vocabulary development in heritage language (HL). However, what remains unknown is the relative importance of these three sets of factors in HL vocabulary growth. The current study explored the complex issue with 457 Singaporean…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Preschool Children
Doering, Elena; Schluter, Kevin; von Suchodoletz, Antje – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research indicates that features of speech during mother-toddler interactions are dependent on the situational context. In this study, we explored language samples of 69 mother-toddler dyads collected during standardized toy play and book-reading situations across two countries, Germany and the United States (US). The results showed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Story Reading
Dirks, Evelien; Stevens, Angela; Kok, Sigrid; Frijns, Johan; Rieffe, Carolien – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This study examined the quantity and quality of parental linguistic input to toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH). The linguistic input to eighteen toddlers with MHL and twenty-four toddlers with NH was examined during a 10-minute free-play activity in their home environment. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments
Quigley, Jean; Nixon, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Research on sources of individual difference in parental Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) is limited and there is a particular lack of research on fathers' compared to mothers' speech. This study examined the predictive relations between infant characteristics and variability in paternal lexical diversity (LD) in dyadic free play with two-year-olds (M…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Speech Communication
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
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