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Ola Ghawi-Dakwar; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Word learning requires the creation of phonological and semantic representations and links in long-term memory. Phonological distance of a given word from the spoken language affects children's lexical-phonological representations and processing. The study investigates the role of the phonological distance of Modern Standard Arabic (StA)…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Arabic, Bilingualism, Phonology
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Kalaitzi, Christina; Panos, Spiros – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This paper aims to investigate to what extent preschoolers' narrative speech can be affected by the combined use of five narrative elements: narrative framing, narrative basic structure, intertextual hero, plot subversion and image-text interaction. It presents an intervention aiming to teach these elements to an experimental group of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Narration
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Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Duaa Abu Elhija; Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines whether differences in acquisition exist among the inflectional constructions of number, gender, possessive pronouns, and tense. Moreover, the study investigates whether these inflectional patterns develop with age. Method: The participants were 1,020 Arabic-speaking kindergartners from K2 and K3. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Kindergarten
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Regina Hert; Anja Arnhold; Juhani Järvikivi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Studies on young children's comprehension have shown that children can experience problems interpreting object pronouns, even when reflexive interpretation is already adult-like. Compared to resolving reflexives, linking pronouns to a referent is considered a more "intensive" process, because it also involves non-syntactic factors like…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
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Miriam Geiss; Maria F. Ferin; Theo Marinis; Tanja Kupisch – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request information, but to express the speaker's belief that the answer is already obvious. This special pragmatic meaning often arises by means of specific prosodic and…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Italian, Bilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Zhang, Xiaowen; Zhou, Peng – First Language, 2022
It has been well-documented that although children around 4 years start to attribute false beliefs to others in classic false-belief tasks, they are still less able to evaluate the truth-value of propositional belief-reporting sentences, especially when belief conflicts with reality. This article investigates whether linguistic cues, verb…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Beliefs, Task Analysis, Sentences
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Nufar Sukenik – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Relative clauses (RCs) are complex syntactic structures because they consist of multiple clauses and involve syntactic movement. RCs are known as a reliable clinical marker of syntactic impairment across many different languages and populations. Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle with the comprehension and production of RCs,…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Task Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Autism Spectrum Disorders
Yi-Lun Weng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding how a child's language system develops into an adult-like system is a central question in language development research. An increasingly influential account proposes that the brain constantly generates top-down predictions and matches them against incoming input, with higher-level cognitive models serving to minimize prediction…
Descriptors: Child Language, Prediction, Diagnostic Tests, Eye Movements
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Angelopoulos, Nikos; Bagioka, Dafni-Vaia; Terzi, Arhonto – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
The most recent studies on the acquisition of evidentiality, be it morphologically or syntactically encoded, have argued that the comprehension lag detected is due to factors having to do with others' authority or mental perspective, where "others" stands for other individuals involved in the experiment in various manners (e.g., the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Age Differences
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Charest, Monique; Baird, Tieghan – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Naming semantically related images results in progressively slower responses as more images are named. There is considerable documentation in adults of this phenomenon, known as cumulative semantic interference. Few studies have focused on this phenomenon in children. The present research investigated cumulative semantic interference effects in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Naming, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
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Ok, Mustafa – Research in Pedagogy, 2023
The aim of this research is to examine the effect of systematic education on the teaching of the text called "The Story of a Book", which is expressed within the scope of the "Our Values" theme in the 4th grade Turkish lesson. The model of the research is mixed method in which pre-test, post-test single-group quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Turkish, Grade 4, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans
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Shang Jiang; Anna Siyanova-Chanturia – First Language, 2024
Recent studies have accumulated to suggest that children, akin to adults, exhibit a processing advantage for formulaic language (e.g. "save energy") over novel language (e.g. "sell energy"), as well as sensitivity to phrase frequencies. The majority of these studies are based on formulaic sequences in their canonical form. In…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Ebru Ger; Tilbe Göksun – First Language, 2024
This study investigates the influences of early and intense L2 exposure on children's L1 causative verb production, assessed by an experimental causative verb production task. Turkish expresses causality by morphological and lexical means, whereas English does so by periphrastic and lexical means. Learning L2 English might enhance L1 Turkish…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Blything, Liam P.; Iraola Azpiroz, Maialen; Allen, Shanley; Hert, Regina; Järvikivi, Juhani – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In two visual world experiments we disentangled the influence of order of mention (first vs. second mention), grammatical role (subject vs object), and semantic role (proto-agent vs proto-patient) on 7- to 10-year-olds' real-time interpretation of German pronouns. Children listened to "SVO" or "OVS" sentences containing active…
Descriptors: Cues, Semantics, Verbs, German
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Guan, Connie Qun; Fraundorf, Scott H.; Perfetti, Charles A. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2020
In light of the dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for a cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development, this study investigated (a) the effects of character properties (i.e., orthographic consistency and transparency) on character acquisition, and (b) the effects of individual learner differences (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Pattern Recognition, Alphabets
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