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Direct linkGuanghao You; Moritz M. Daum; Sabine Stoll – Cognitive Science, 2024
Causation is a core feature of human cognition and language. How children learn about intricate causal meanings is yet unresolved. Here, we focus on how children learn verbs that express causation. Such verbs, known as lexical causatives (e.g., break and raise), lack explicit morphosyntactic markers indicating causation, thus requiring that the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Verbs, Child Language, Adults
Smith, Jodie; Sulek, Rhylee; Van Der Wert, Kailia; Cincotta-Lee, Olivia; Green, Cherie C.; Bent, Catherine A.; Chetcuti, Lacey; Hudry, Kristelle – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Both the amount "and" responsiveness of adult language input contribute to the language development of autistic and non-autistic children. From parent-child interaction footage, we measured the amount of adult language input, overall parent responsiveness, and six discrete parent responsive behaviours ("imitations, expansions,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Imitation, Interpersonal Communication, Child Language
Lee, Crystal; Lew-Williams, Casey – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Children learn words in a social environment, facilitated in part by social cues from caregivers, such as eye-gaze and gesture. A common assumption is that social cues convey either perceptual or social information, depending on the age of the child. In this review of research on word learning and social cues during early childhood, we propose…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Child Language
Donnelly, Seamus; Kidd, Evan – Child Development, 2021
Children acquire language embedded within the rich social context of interaction. This paper reports on a longitudinal study investigating the developmental relationship between conversational turn-taking and vocabulary growth in English-acquiring children (N = 122) followed between 9 and 24 months. Daylong audio recordings obtained every 3 months…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Interpersonal Communication
Odijk, Lotte; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Do parents fine-tune the MLU of utterances with a particular word as the word is on the verge of appearing in the child's production? We analyzed a corpus of spontaneous interactions of 30 dyads. The children were in the initial stages of their lexical development, and the parents' utterances containing the words the children eventually acquired…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Code Switching (Language)
Orr, Edna – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2022
Objective: The tendency to vocalize toward objects is ubiquitous among young infants. However, little is known about the range of this tendency and its contribution to language development. Therefore, this longitudinal study objective was to explore the role of three forms of vocal behavior (vocalization, babbling, and speech) directed toward…
Descriptors: Infants, Verbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Toddlers
Soler, Marta Casla; Murillo, Eva; Nieva, Silvia; Rodríguez, Jessica; Mendez-Cabezas, Celia; Rujas, Irene – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This study investigated verbal imitation from a multimodal point of view, considering the mutual influence of children's and adults' participation. Sixteen Spanish-speaking children were observed longitudinally at 21, 24, and 30 months of age in natural settings. We analyzed the multimodal characteristics of children's and adults' repetitions,…
Descriptors: Adults, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication
Ashtari, Atieh; Samadi, Sayyed Ali; Yadegari, Fariba; Ghaedamini Harooni, Gholamreza – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This observational study examined the Iranian mothers' interaction with their typically developing children aged 13-18 months during free play at home (n = 40). The first aim was to determine the main type of Iranian maternal verbal responsiveness. Another aim was to investigate the impact of concurrent prediction of maternal verbal responsiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Verbal Communication
Uzundag, Berna A.; Küntay, Aylin C. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Using a cross-linguistic approach, we investigated Turkish-speaking children's acquisition and use of relative clauses (RCs) by examining longitudinal child-caregiver interactions and cross-sectional peer conversations. Longitudinal data were collected from 8 children between the ages of 8 and 36 months. Peer conversational corpus came from 78…
Descriptors: Turkish, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Interpersonal Communication
Yoshida, Hanako; Cirino, Paul; Mire, Sarah S.; Burling, Joseph M.; Lee, Sunbok – Journal of Child Language, 2020
The present study focused on parents' social cue use in relation to young children's attention. Participants were ten parent-child dyads; all children were 36 to 60 months old and were either typically developing (TD) or were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children wore a head-mounted camera that recorded the proximate child view…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers
Hartman, Kelly M.; Ratner, Nan Bernstein; Newman, Rochelle S. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
There have been many studies examining the differences between infant-directed speech (IDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS). However, investigations asking whether mothers clarify vowel articulation in IDS have reached equivocal findings. Moreover, it is unclear whether maternal speech clarification has any effect on a child's developing language…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Henke, Ryan E. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study presents the first investigation of the development of possessive constructions in Northern East Cree, a polysynthetic language indigenous to Canada. It examines transcripts from naturalistic recording sessions involving one adult and one child, from age 2;01.12 to 3;08.24. Findings reveal that, despite the frequency of possessive…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Child Language
Rowe, Meredith L.; Snow, Catherine E. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of input quality: interactive, linguistic, and conceptual. All three types of input features have been shown to predict children's language learning, though perhaps through somewhat different…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Interaction
Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Boyd, Brian; Clements, Mark; Rehg, James; Elison, Jed T.; Paterson, Sarah; Parish-Morris, Julia; Chappell, J. Chad; Hazlett, Heather C.; Emerson, Robert W.; Botteron, Kelly; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph – Child Development, 2018
Children's early language environments are related to later development. Little is known about this association in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often experience language delays or have ASD. Fifty-nine 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk for ASD contributed full-day in-home language recordings.…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Environmental Influences
Ramírez-Esparza, Nairán; García-Sierra, Adrián; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Child Development, 2017
This study tested the impact of child-directed language input on language development in Spanish-English bilingual infants (N = 25, 11- and 14-month-olds from the Seattle metropolitan area), across languages and independently for each language, controlling for socioeconomic status. Language input was characterized by social interaction variables,…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
