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Jun Liu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Learners of Japanese as a second language (JSL) find it difficult to learn various sentence patterns. To assist JSL learners with their study of Japanese sentence patterns (JSPs), this paper constructs a human-machine collaborative framework that combines artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with the users' active participation for Japanese…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Man Machine Systems, Second Language Learning
Victor Almeida Rodrigues Gomes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Given its complexity, abstractness, and central role in many logics, negation might be a conceptual accomplishment. Therefore, young children's gradual acquisition of negation words might be due to their undergoing a conceptual change that is necessary to represent logical meanings. However, it's also possible that expressing negation takes time…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Reading Processes
Bastian Bunzeck; Holger Diessel – First Language, 2025
In a seminal study, Cameron-Faulkner et al. made two important observations about utterance-level constructions in English child-directed speech (CDS). First, they observed that canonical in/transitive sentences are surprisingly infrequent in child-direct speech (given that SVO word order is often thought to play a key role in the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Speech Habits, Speech Communication
Cheng, Qi; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Developmental Science, 2021
Limited language experience in childhood is common among deaf individuals, which prior research has shown to lead to low levels of language processing. Although basic structures such as word order have been found to be resilient to conditions of sparse language input in early life, whether they are robust to conditions of extreme language delay is…
Descriptors: Word Order, Sentence Structure, Sentences, Comprehension
Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
A fundamental question in psycholinguistics concerns how grammatical structure contributes to real-time sentence parsing and understanding. While many argue that grammatical structure is only loosely related to on-line parsing, others hold the view that the two are tightly linked. Here, I use the incremental growth of grammatical structure in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Decision Making
Emeryse Emond; Rushen Shi – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
We investigated toddlers' understanding of the hierarchical syntactic configurations that constrain the referential meanings of reflexives and pronouns. In particular, reflexives must co-refer with the c-commanding antecedent within the local domain (Principle A) (e.g., He[subscript i] washes himself[subscript i]. John[subscript i] knows that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Eye Movements
Huanhuan Shi; Angela Xiaoxue He; Hyun-Joo Song; Kyong-Sun Jin; Sudha Arunachalam – Language Learning and Development, 2024
To learn new words, particularly verbs, child learners have been shown to benefit from the linguistic contexts in which the words appear. However, cross-linguistic differences affect how this process unfolds. One previous study found that children's abilities to learn a new verb differed across Korean and English as a function of the sentence in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Sentence Structure, Korean, Monolingualism
Soohyung Joo; Maria Cahill; Erin Ingram; Hayley Hoffman; Amy Olson; Kun Lu – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
Through analysis of the language, this study aimed to investigate the current practice of using songs in public library storytimes. Language interactions in 68 storytime programs involving 652 child participants were observed and transcribed. Then, textual analysis was conducted to examine the language of singing songs, focusing on how language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Public Libraries, Story Telling, Singing
Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
de Carvalho, Alex; Crimon, Cécile; Barrault, Axel; Trueswell, John; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Two word-learning experiments were conducted to investigate the understanding of negative sentences in 18- and 24-month-old children. In Experiment 1, after learning that "bamoule" means "penguin" and "pirdaling" means "cartwheeling," 18-month-olds (n = 48) increased their looking times when listening to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Sentences
Padraic Monaghan; Heather Murray; Heiko Holz – Language Learning, 2024
To acquire language, learners have to map the language onto the environment, but languages vary as to how much information they include to constrain how a sentence relates to the world. We investigated the conditions under which information within the language and the environment is combined for learning. In a cross-situational artificial language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Environmental Influences, Context Effect, Artificial Languages
Kimberly Ofori-Sanzo; Leah Geer; Kinya Embry – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This case study describes the use of a syntax intervention with two deaf children who did not acquire a complete first language (L1) from birth. It looks specifically at their ability to produce subject-verb-object (SVO) sentence structure in American Sign Language (ASL) after receiving intervention. This was an exploratory case study in which…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Syntax, American Sign Language
Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Developmental Science, 2024
There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as "She play tennis" and "Mummy eating" is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context-blind fashion. So how do children stop making such…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Preschool Children, Grammar
Mayberry, Rachel I.; Hatrak, Marla; Ilbasaran, Deniz; Cheng, Qi; Huang, Yaqian; Hall, Matt L. – Developmental Science, 2024
The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence-to-picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood. Deaf…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Enrichment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition