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Luan Li; Ming Song; Qing Cai – Developmental Science, 2025
Early vocabulary development benefits from diverse lexical exposures within children's language environment. However, the influence of lexical diversity on children as they enter middle childhood and are exposed to multimodal language inputs remains unclear. This study evaluates global and local aspects of lexical diversity in three…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Child Language, Speech Communication
Mary E. Brushe; Murthy N. Mittinty; Tess Gregory; Dandara Haag; John W. Lynch; Sheena Reilly; Edward Melhuish; Sally A. Brinkman – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Language development is critical for children's life chances. Promoting parent-child interactions is suggested as one mechanism to support language development in the early years. However, limited evidence exists for a causal effect of parent-child interactions on children's language development. Methods: Data from the Language in…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Yue Ma; Xinwu Zhang; Lucy Pappas; Andrew Rule; Yujuan Gao; Sarah-Eve Dill; Tianli Feng; Yue Zhang; Hong Wang; Flavio Cunha; Scott Rozelle – Child Development, 2024
In low- and middle-income countries, urbanization has spurred the expansion of peri-urban communities, or urban communities of formerly rural residents with low socioeconomic status. The growth of these communities offers researchers an opportunity to measure the associations between the level of urbanization and the home language environment…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Family Environment, Language Usage, Infants
Ily Hollebeke – Language Policy, 2024
The dynamic nature of multilingual families and their language policies has been touched upon by numerous studies. Adding to the field, the present study assesses the stability of family language policy in a standardised and quantitative manner. To this end, a linguistically heterogenous sample consisting of 488 multilingual families raising young…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Beliefs
Militina Gomozova; Valeriia Lezzhova; Olga Dragoy; Anastasiya Lopukhina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Previously, Lancaster and Camarata (2019) showed that the continuum/spectrum model of the developmental language disorder (DLD) best explained the high heterogeneity of symptoms in children with DLD. We hypothesize that the continuum/spectrum approach can include not only children with DLD but also typically developing (TD) children with…
Descriptors: Russian, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
Paul Okyere Omane; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' preference for vowelharmony (VH, a phonotactic constraint that requires vowels in a word to be featurally similar) is thought to be language-specific: Monolingual infants learning VH languages show a listening preference for VH patterns by 6 months of age, while those learning non-VH languages do not (Gonzalez-Gomez et al., 2019; Van…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Bassil M. Mashaqba; Khalid Al-Shdifat; Anas I. Al huneety; Mohammad Nour Abu Guba; Hadeel Abdelhadi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This study investigated phonological whole-word measures in bilingual Arabic-English speakers to explore how the target approximations influence children's phonological development. To this end, fifteen bilingual Arabic-English speakers and nine monolingual Arabic-speaking children aged 36-48 months (mean = 42) participated in a parent-child…
Descriptors: Phonology, Child Language, Bilingualism, Arabic
Masrizal Mahmud; Erizar – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
Young learners are known to extend verb regularity further than it actually is. When it happens, this children's overregularization phenomenon can be a result of several reasons: a failed linguistic development due to confusion between rules and memory, a lack of feedback from adults, and problems with cognitive development. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Verbs
Lulu Cheng; Shaoxin Wang; Yule Peng – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Children's language development can reflect the developmental process of children's cognition and social emotions. The present study focuses on preschool children's conversational competence and narrative competence, aiming at exploring developmental features of preschool children's pragmatic competence through analyzing data from self-built oral…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Child Language, Pragmatics
Naila Tallas-Mahajna; Sharon Armon-Lotem; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The Arabic verb system features a nonlinear root and pattern derivational morphology. Previous studies suggest that young Arabic and Hebrew speakers' early verb use is based on semantic complexity rather than derivational morphological structure. The present study examines the role of morphological and semantic complexity in the emergence…
Descriptors: Arabic, Verbs, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities
Simthembile Xeketwana; Nobesuthu Xeketwana; Christine Anthonissen – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2025
Background: This study explores how family language policies (FLPs) in multilingual homes where isiXhosa is the primary language influence caregiver choices regarding children's language development and education. Objectives: The study aims to give insight on how non-nuclear family structures in a selected sample of Western Cape families are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Usage, Language Planning
Scherger, Anna-Lena; Kizilirmak, Jasmin M.; Folta-Schoofs, Kristian – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension). We examined German five-to seven-year-old typically developing children and an adult control group.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Brinchmann, Ellen Irén; Røe-Indregård, Hanne; Karlsen, Jannicke; Schauber, Stefan Kilian; Hagtvet, Bente Eriksen – Child Development, 2023
The association between decontextualized talk (DT; i.e., talk extending beyond immediate context) and child language outcomes is well-attested but not well-understood. This study tested the hypothesis that DT is more linguistically complex than contextualized talk (CT). Thirty-eight Norwegian children (M[subscript age] = 5.5 years; 25 girls; 30…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Picture Books
Ragnar Arntzen; Gisela Håkansson – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article examines multilingual language use in two groups of children, one group at a state school, and one at a private IB school. The IB school has earlier been assumed to reflect an 'elite' multilingualism. Three research questions are posed: to what extent is the children's language use multilingual, what are their typological profiles,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Children, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Lesley Friend; Lynn Downes – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Oral language is the primary means through which a child controls, describes, organises, and evaluates their life experiences and their ability to use oral language which effectively impacts their future literacy development. Currently, the world is awash with dynamic change and constant disruption. These include natural disasters such as the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Oral Language, Young Children, COVID-19