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When Regularization Gets It Wrong: Children Over-Simplify Language Input Only in Production
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Schwab, Jessica F.; Lew-Williams, Casey; Goldberg, Adele E. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Children tend to regularize their productions when exposed to artificial languages, an advantageous response to unpredictable variation. But generalizations in natural languages are typically conditioned by factors that children ultimately learn. In two experiments, adult and six-year-old learners witnessed two novel classifiers, probabilistically…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Semantics
The Effects of Pre-Task Planning on EFL Learners' Oral Performance in a 3D Multi-User Virtual Environment
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Chen, Julian ChengChiang – ReCALL, 2020
Prior research on pre-task planning examines its effects on the quality of second language (L2) learners' planned output. Planning mitigates the cognitive overload placed upon L2 learners' oral performance, thus improving language production. Despite the pedagogical benefits, studies on pre-task planning on L2 learners' oral output are conducted…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
A Multifaceted Approach to Investigating Pre-Task Planning Effects on Paired Oral Test Performance
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Nitta, Ryo; Nakatsuhara, Fumiyo – Language Testing, 2014
Despite the growing popularity of paired format speaking assessments, the effects of pre-task planning time on performance in these formats are not yet well understood. For example, some studies have revealed the benefits of planning but others have not. Using a multifaceted approach including analysis of the process of speaking performance, the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Decision Making
Individual Variation in Infant Speech Processing: Implications for Language Acquisition Theories
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Cristia, Alejandrina – ProQuest LLC, 2009
To what extent does language acquisition recruit domain-general processing mechanisms? In this dissertation, evidence concerning this question is garnered from the study of individual differences in infant speech perception and their predictive value with respect to language development in early childhood. In the first experiment, variation in the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Infants, Acoustics, Caregivers
Do Language-Based Processing Tasks Separate Children with Language Impairment from Typical Bilinguals
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Kohnert, Kathryn; Windsor, Jennifer; Yim, Dongsun – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
We report results from 2 language-based processing tasks designed to investigate the performance of linguistically diverse learners. The tasks were the Competing Language Processing Task (CLPT) and Non-Word Repetition (NWR). Participants were 100 school-age children in 1 of 3 different experimental groups: monolingual English-speaking children…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Performance, Language Impairments, Bilingualism
The Development of Children's Understanding of "Because" and "So."
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French, Lucia Ann – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Assesses children's comprehension of "because" and "so" on enactment and sentence completion tasks. Results provide evidence against a componential model for the acquisition of causal connectives. Supported is the position that understanding of relational terms is initially context dependent; linguistic development generates…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten Children, Language Processing