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Children's Comprehension of Prosodically Marked Focus in Hungarian: How Mandatory Syntactic Focus-Marking Affects the Trajectory of Acquisition
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Surányi, Balázs; Pinter, Lilla – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates children's identification of prosodic focus in Hungarian, a language in which syntactic focus-marking is mandatory. Assuming that regular syntactic focus-marking diminishes the disambiguating role of prosodic marking in acquisition, we expected that in sentences in which focus is only disambiguated by prosody, adult-like…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Suprasegmentals, Hungarian, Syntax
Converging Evidence of Underlying Competence: Comprehension and Production in the Acquisition of Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement
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Hsin, Lisa B.; Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Barriere, Isabelle; Nazzi, Thierry; Legendre, Geraldine – Journal of Child Language, 2021
A surprising comprehension-production asymmetry in subject-verb (SV) agreement acquisition has been suggested in the literature, and recent research indicates that task-specific as well as language-specific features may contribute to this apparent asymmetry across languages. The present study investigates when during development children acquiring…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Language Variation
¡Casi te caístes!: Variation in Second Person Singular Preterit Forms in Spanish Children
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Baker, Elisabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit --s ("caiste" [approximately equal to] "caístes"). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Grammar, Speech Communication
Commentaries on "Filler Syllables: What Is Their Status in Emerging Grammar?"
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Dabrowska, Ewa; Demuth, Katherine; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Echols, Catharine H.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Lleo, Conxita; Lopez-Ornat, Susana; Menn, Lise; Feldman, Andrea; Radford, Andrew; Veneziano, Edy; Vihman, Marilyn May; Velleman, Shelley L. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Various commentaries are included in response to an article on filler syllables and their status in emerging grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Generalization, Grammar
Acquisition of Variable Rules: A Study of (-t, d) Deletion in Preschool Children.
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Roberts, Julie – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Examined the pattern of deletion of final "/t/" and "/d/" in word final consonant clusters in 3- and 4-year-old children (n=16) and their degree of mastery of phonological and grammatical constraints. Results indicate that children as young as three had mastered the phonological constraints on (-t, d) deletion and that the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Developmental Stages, Distinctive Features (Language)