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Jiao Du; Xiaowei He; Haopeng Yu – First Language, 2025
We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in 15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; aged 4;2-5;11) in comparison with 15 Typically Developing Aged-matched (TDA) children (aged 4;3-5;8) and 15 Typically Developing Younger (TDY) children (aged 3;2-4;3). This…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Impairments
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Dowdall, Nicholas; Murray, Lynne; Skeen, Sarah; Marlow, Marguerite; De Pascalis, Leonardo; Gardner, Frances; Tomlinson, Mark; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2021
This study evaluated the impact of a parenting intervention on children's cognitive and socioemotional development in a group of caregivers and their 21-to-28-month-old children in a low-income South African township. A randomized controlled trial compared an experimental group (n = 70) receiving training in dialogic book-sharing (8 weekly group…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Books, Parenting Skills, Intervention
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Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Schulze, Cornelia; Anagnostopoulou, Nefeli; Zajaczkowska, Maria; Matthews, Danielle – First Language, 2022
If a child asks a friend to play football and the friend replies, 'I have a cough', the requesting child must make a 'relevance inference' to determine the communicative intent. Relevance inferencing is a key component of pragmatics, that is, the ability to integrate social context into language interpretation and use. We tested which cognitive…
Descriptors: Young Children, Articulation (Speech), English, Thinking Skills
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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
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Chen, Ao; Kager, René – Infant and Child Development, 2016
In the current study, we examined the developmental course of the perception of non-native tonal contrast. We tested 4, 6 and 12-month-old Dutch infants on their discrimination of Chinese low-rising tone and low-dipping tone using the visual fixation paradigm. The infants were tested in two conditions that differed in terms of degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Intonation, Cognitive Development
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Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine A.; Perrier, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study aimed to test a 5-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children's school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful control in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Among a sample of 204 mother-child dyads, we assessed maternal mind-mindedness…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language, Toddlers
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Shaalan, Saleh – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017
This study describes the reliability and validity of four language tests: The Sentence Comprehension Test (SCT), the Expressive Language Test (ELT), the Sentence Repetition Test (SRT), and the Arabic Picture Vocabulary Test (APVT). These tests were administered to two groups of Qatari Arabic-speaking children: A typically developing group (n=81 to…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Language Tests, Expressive Language
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Dimroth, Christine; Narasimhan, Bhuvana – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
When communicating with their interlocutors, adults have a robust preference to order previously mentioned ("old") referents in the discourse before mentioning referents that have not yet been introduced in the discourse ("new"). But in an experimental study investigating phrasal conjuncts, 3- to 5-year-olds acquiring German…
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Development, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure
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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Licata, Maria; Thoermer, Claudia; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Children's talk about the mind has been scarcely studied in non-English speakers. For this reason, this longitudinal study documents age-related changes in German-speaking children's internal state language. At 24, 30 and 36?months, children were administered general language tests and their internal state vocabulary levels were obtained via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers
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Guarini, Annalisa; Sansavini, Alessandra; Fabbri, Cristina; Savini, Silvia; Alessandroni, Rosina; Faldella, Giacomo; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette – Journal of Child Language, 2010
The aims of this study were to investigate whether specific linguistic difficulties in preterm children persist at eight years and to examine the interrelationships between language and literacy in this population, compared with a control group of full-term children. Sixty-eight monolingual Italian preterms and 26 chronologically matched controls…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Linguistics, Phonological Awareness
Edwards, Carolyn, Ed.; Gandini, Lella, Ed.; Forman, George, Ed. – Praeger, 2011
Why does the city of Reggio Emilia in northern Italy feature one of the best public systems of early education in the world? This book documents the comprehensive and innovative approach that utilizes the "hundred languages of children" to support their well-being and foster their intellectual development. Reggio Emilia is a fast-growing…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Theater Arts, Quality of Life, Young Children
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Gjems, Liv – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
The purpose of the study reported in this article was to investigate conversations involving dialogue and negotiation of meaning, through which children will learn to talk and talk to learn. In kindergarten children will learn both to listen to language and to use language, but we have few studies of what characterises the qualities of their…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Cognitive Development
Aprile, Luigi – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Tests and confirms hypothesis that a four-stage process exists in the understanding and use of synonyms, antonyms, and tautologies in children ages three to six. The results of this study challenge widely held theories on cognitive development. (45 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Siegel, Linda S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Although both environmental and cognitive factors were found to predict language development, cognitive factors appear to be more significant in the early months and environmental factors become more significant later in development. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
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Kuntay, Aylin C.; Ozyurek, Asli – Journal of Child Language, 2006
Pragmatic development requires the ability to use linguistic forms, along with non-verbal cues, to focus an interlocutor's attention on a referent during conversation. We investigate the development of this ability by examining how the use of demonstratives is learned in Turkish, where a three-way demonstrative system ("bu,"…
Descriptors: Cues, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Attention Span
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