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Direct linkÁine Ní Choisdealbha; Adam Attaheri; Sinead Rocha; Natasha Mead; Helen Olawole-Scott; Maria Alfaro e Oliveira; Carmel Brough; Perrine Brusini; Samuel Gibbon; Panagiotis Boutris; Christina Grey; Isabel Williams; Sheila Flanagan; Usha Goswami – Developmental Science, 2024
It is known that the rhythms of speech are visible on the face, accurately mirroring changes in the vocal tract. These low-frequency visual temporal movements are tightly correlated with speech output, and both visual speech (e.g., mouth motion) and the acoustic speech amplitude envelope entrain neural oscillations. Low-frequency visual temporal…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Speech Communication
Grimminger, Angela; Rohlfing, Katharina J.; Lüke, Carina; Liszkowski, Ulf; Ritterfeld, Ute – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Decontextualized talk is assumed to be used only rarely when children are younger than 30 months. Motivated by Bühler's (1934/1999) linguistic theory that describes different dimensions of (de-)contextualization, we provide evidence that this kind of input can already be found in caregivers' talking to their 12-month-old children. Such early input…
Descriptors: Infants, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory
Kayama, Yuhko; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – First Language, 2022
The present study investigated the role of morphosyntactic information in the acquisition of transitive and intransitive verb argument structures (VAS) in the Japanese language, which allows massive omissions of arguments and case markers. In particular, we investigated how the 'variation sets' proposed by Küntay and Slobin work in Japanese.…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Japanese, Verbs, Language Acquisition
Saito, Kazuya; Sun, Hui; Kachlicka, Magdalena; Alayo, John Robert Carvajal; Nakata, Tatsuya; Tierney, Adam – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In this study, we propose a hypothesis that domain-general auditory processing, a perceptual anchor of L1 acquisition, can serve as the foundation of successful post-pubertal L2 learning. This hypothesis was tested with 139 post-pubertal L2 immersion learners by linking individual differences in auditory discrimination across multiple acoustic…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Auditory Perception, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Hamilton, Lorna G.; O'Halloran, Isabelle; Cutting, Nicola – First Language, 2021
Narrative production draws upon linguistic, cognitive and pragmatic skills, and is subject to substantial individual differences. This study aimed to characterise the development of narrative production in late childhood and to assess whether children's cumulative experience of reading fiction is associated with individual differences in narrative…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Child Development, Narration, Reading Materials
Ferguson, Brock; Graf, Eileen; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Learning and Development, 2018
We assessed 24-month-old infants' lexical processing efficiency for both novel and familiar words. Prior work documented that 19-month-olds successfully identify referents of familiar words (e.g., The dog is so little) as well as novel words whose meanings were informed only by the surrounding sentence (e.g., The vep is crying), but that the speed…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Processing, Comparative Analysis
Uno, Mariko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The present dissertation extracted 17,291 questions from Aki, Ryo, and Tai and their mother's spontaneously produced speech data available in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Oshima-Takane & MacWhinney, 1998). The children's age ranged from 1;3 to 3;0. Their questions were coded for (1) yes/no questions that include a sentence-final…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship
Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Ohana, Odelya – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present study explores the vocabulary development of bilingual children when neither of their languages has a minority language status. With both languages having high relative prestige, it is possible to address the impact of exposure variables: age of onset, length of exposure, and frequency of exposure (FoE) to both languages. Parents of 40…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Child Language, Semitic Languages
VanDam, Mark; Ambrose, Sophie E.; Moeller, Mary Pat – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2012
Automated analyses of full-day recordings were used to determine whether young children who are hard-of-hearing (HH) received similar levels of exposure to adult words and conversational interactions as age-matched peers with normal-hearing (NH). Differences in adult input between children in this study and in a normative database were considered.…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Toddlers, Deafness, Partial Hearing
Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Haman, Ewa; de López, Kristine Jensen; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Szczerbinski, Marcin; van Hout, Angeliek; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Gavarró, Anna; Hobbs, Erin; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Katsos, Napoleon; Kunnari, Sari; Nitsiou, Chrisa; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Parramon, Xavier; Sauerland, Uli; Torn-Leesik, Reeli; van der Lely, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This cross-linguistic study evaluates children's understanding of passives in 11 typologically different languages: Catalan, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish. The study intends to determine whether the reported gaps between the comprehension of active and passive and between short and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Mani, Nivedita; Huettig, Falk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Are there individual differences in children's prediction of upcoming linguistic input and what do these differences reflect? Using a variant of the preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, Cauley, & Gordon, 1987), we found that, upon hearing a sentence like, "The boy eats a big cake," 2-year-olds fixate edible objects…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Evidence, Form Classes (Languages)
Serratrice, Ludovica; Hesketh, Anne; Ashworth, Rachel – First Language, 2015
This study investigated the long-term effects of structural priming on children's use of indirect speech clauses in a narrative context. Forty-two monolingual English-speaking 5-year-olds in two primary classrooms took part in a story-retelling task including reported speech. Testing took place in three individual sessions (pre-test, post-test 1,…
Descriptors: Priming, Grammar, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development
Corrigan, Roberta – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
There are individual differences in the amount and type of vocabulary that adults produce to young children in the home environment before the children enter school. How many words a mother knows is a significant predictor of a child's vocabulary. The current study addressed the question of whether there were individual differences in the amount…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Semantics, Individual Differences
David, Annabelle; Wei, Li – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The large and rapidly expanding body of literature on bilingual acquisition is mostly comprised of either single-case or cross-sectional studies. While these studies have made major contributions to our understanding of bilingual children's language development, they do not allow researchers to compare and contrast results with regard to…
Descriptors: Birth Order, French, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedFoster-Cohen, Susan H. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses themes that relate to the connections between first- and second-language acquisition. Specific focus is on the following issues: whether there is a language instinct; what input could and does teach the child; rules and representations (i.e., how language resides in the individual); individual differences in language acquisition; and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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