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Taverna, Andrea S. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
This paper provides the first evidence of maternal speech--motherese--in Wichi, an indigenous language with a complex morphology spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. The corpus consists of 22 hours of video recordings from the daily life of three children, starting from their one-morpheme utterance period (MLU = 1) to the onset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Language Usage
Galip Kartal; Hatice Okyar – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The present study carried out a bibliometric analysis of L2 eye-tracking research. VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and CitNetExplorer were used for the analysis. The data were 245 articles indexed by Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The study identified the research topics, trends, promising research directions, influential authors and documents, and…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Language Research
Hübscher, Iris; Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Igualada, Alfonso; Prieto, Pilar – First Language, 2017
This study investigates 3- to 5-year-old children's sensitivity to lexical, intonational and gestural information in the comprehension of speaker uncertainty. Most previous studies on children's understanding of speaker certainty and uncertainty across languages have focused on the comprehension of lexical markers, and little is known about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Child Language, Spanish
Pearl, Lisa – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
Generative approaches to language have long recognized the natural link between theories of knowledge representation and theories of knowledge acquisition. The basic idea is that the knowledge representations provided by Universal Grammar enable children to acquire language as reliably as they do because these representations highlight the…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics
Gutman, Ariel; Dautriche, Isabelle; Crabbé, Benoît; Christophe, Anne – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
The "syntactic bootstrapping" hypothesis proposes that syntactic structure provides children with cues for learning the meaning of novel words. In this article, we address the question of how children might start acquiring some aspects of syntax before they possess a sizeable lexicon. The study presents two models of early syntax…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Goffman, Lisa; Westover, Stefanie – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The aim of this study was to determine, using speech error and articulatory analyses, whether the binary distinction between iambs and trochees should be extended to include additional prosodic subcategories. Adults, children who are normally developing, and children with specific language impairment (SLI) participated. Children with SLI were…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research, Language Acquisition
Hawthorne, Kara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
It has long been argued that prosodic cues may facilitate syntax acquisition (e.g., Morgan, 1986). Previous studies have shown that infants are sensitive to violations of typical correlations between clause-final prosodic cues (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987) and that prosody facilitates memory for strings of words (Soderstrom et al., 2005). This…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Zhou, Peng; Su, Yi; Crain, Stephen; Gao, Liqun; Zhan, Likan – Journal of Child Language, 2012
How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research. In the present study two experiments were conducted to investigate four- to five-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's sensitivity to prosody in ambiguity resolution. Experiment…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Language Research, Child Language
Lin, Phoebe M. S. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
With the ever increasing number of studies on formulaic language, we are beginning to learn more about the processing of formulaic language (e.g. Ellis et al. 2008; Siyanova et al. 2011), its use in speech (e.g. Aijmer 1996; Wood 2012) and writing (e.g. Hyland 2008a, 2008b) and its application in natural language processing (e.g. Tschichold 2000).…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Memory
Bassano, Dominique; Korecky-Kröll, Katharina; Maillochon, Isabelle; van Dijk, Marijn; Laaha, Sabine; van Geert, Paul; Dressler, Wolfgang U. – First Language, 2013
This study investigates prosodic (noun length) and lexical-semantic (animacy) influences on determiner use in the spontaneous speech of three children acquiring French, Austrian German and Dutch. In support of typological and language-specific hypotheses from the Germanic-Romance contrast, an advantage of monosyllabic nouns and of inanimate nouns…
Descriptors: Intonation, French, Form Classes (Languages), German
Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The structure of /s/-clusters has been a rather controversial subject due to their structural oddities. Studies on the acquisition of these clusters have contributed to the discussion to validate certain theoretical claims, and sonority-related issues have always been in focus. Cross-linguistic acquisition data from children with phonological…
Descriptors: Children, Language Acquisition, Phonological Awareness, Syllables
Yavas, Mehmet – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study investigated the development of English two-member onset #sC clusters in Spanish-English bilingual children with phonological disorders. Data from 30 children were analysed in terms of correct and incorrect productions, implicational relationships, and possible groupings according to the sonority index of the second member of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Prediction, Classification, English (Second Language)
Ben-David, Avivit; Ezrati, Ruth; Stulman, Navah – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study examines the production and reduction patterns of initial /s/ clusters by Hebrew-speaking children with phonological disorders. Data were collected from 30 children with phonological disorders between the ages of 3;5-5;2. The data were elicited by means of a picture-naming task combined with a sentence completion task. Target words…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Speech Evaluation
Burrows, Lauren; Goldstein, Brian A. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Phonological acquisition traditionally has been measured using constructs that focus on segments rather than the whole words. Findings from recent research have suggested whole-word productions be evaluated using measures such as phonological mean length of utterance (pMLU) and the proportion of whole-word proximity (PWP). These measures have been…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, English
Marinova-Todd, Stefka H.; Zhao, Jing; Bernhardt, May – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
A number of studies have shown that bilingual children have an advantage when performing on phonological awareness tasks, particularly in their stronger language. Little research has been done to date, examining the effects of bilingualism on both languages of bilingual children. In this study Mandarin-English bilingual children's performance on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese