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Robert E. Owens Jr.; Stacey L. Pavelko; Debbie Hahs-Vaughn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: Production of complex syntax is a hallmark of later language development; however, most of the research examining age-related changes has focused on adolescents or analyzed narrative language samples. Research documenting age-related changes in the production of complex syntax in elementary school-aged children in conversational language…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Usage, Syntax, Age Differences
Ke, Alan Hezao; Zhao, Ya; Gao, Liqun; Liu, Shuying; Pires, Acrisio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This paper provides experimental and theoretical evidence for the syntactic realization of an implicit possessor argument in Relational Nouns (RNs, e.g. "father") in Mandarin Chinese. The results of Experiment 1 show that the antecedent of the implicit argument in RNs must be a noun phrase (NP) in the sentence where the RN is located,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Usage, Grammar, Syntax
Yuriko Oshima-Takane – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Using a habituation paradigm with a three-switch design, the present study investigated whether 20-month-old French-learning infants use noun and verb morphosyntactic cues to learn novel words in dynamic events differentially when both the agent and the action interpretations are possible. Of particular interest was whether infants' initial…
Descriptors: Infants, Nouns, Verbs, Language Usage
Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; de Carvalho, Alex; Christophe, Anne – Language Learning, 2021
A previous study has shown that children use recent input to adapt their syntactic predictions and use these adapted predictions to infer the meaning of novel words. In the current study, we investigated whether children could use this mechanism to disambiguate words whose interpretation as a noun or a verb is ambiguous. We tested 2- to 4-year-old…
Descriptors: Syntax, Prediction, Linguistic Input, Inferences
LeGrand, Kaya J.; Wisman Weil, Lisa; Lord, Catherine; Luyster, Rhiannon J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Several studies have reported that "useful speech" at 5 years of age predicts outcomes in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but this skill has been vaguely defined. This study investigates which specific aspects of expressive language in children with ASD best predict adult language and communication outcomes.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Expressive Language, Adults
Granados, Adrián; Lorenzo-Espejo, Antonio; Lorenzo, Francisco – Language and Education, 2023
This study describes academic literacy development during mid-adolescence, when learners need to adjust to the demands of academic discourse as a gateway to linguistic adulthood. Unlike most research to date, which is cross-sectional and detached from disciplinary content, this study provides a two-year longitudinal description of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy Education, Longitudinal Studies, History Instruction
Chang, Lucas M.; Deák, Gedeon O. – Cognitive Science, 2020
Children show a remarkable degree of consistency in learning some words earlier than others. What patterns of word usage predict variations among words in age of acquisition? We use distributional analysis of a naturalistic corpus of child-directed speech to create quantitative features representing natural variability in word contexts. We…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Young Children, Child Language, Context Effect
Aytaç-Demirçivi, Kadriye – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The present study investigates the usage of speech like expressions in written works of Turkish learners of English. It also aims to find out the differences between C1 and B1 level learners in terms of the frequency and types of speech like expressions. The participants in this study were 21 B1 and 33 C1 level students at a state university in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Le Normand, Marie-Thérèse – First Language, 2019
In this corpus study, it is asked whether young children speaking European French build their early syntax around grammatical or lexical words. Specifically, the study examines the relationship of grammatical and lexical words in three types of syntactic structures (determiner--noun, pronoun--verb and subject pronoun--verb). The corpus included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Child Language, Grammar
Goldberg, Adele E.; Michaelis, Laura A. – Cognitive Science, 2017
"One" anaphora (e.g., "this is a good one") has been used as a key diagnostic in syntactic analyses of the English noun phrase, and "'one'-replacement" has also figured prominently in debates about the learnability of language. However, much of this work has been based on faulty premises, as a few perceptive…
Descriptors: Syntax, English, Nouns, Phrase Structure
Asikin-Garmager, Eli Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation provides a formal and functional analysis of grammatical voice in Sasak, an Austronesian language spoken in Eastern Indonesia. The research addresses two primary questions, which are (1) how does Sasak clause structure and morphosyntax vary across dialects? and (2) what shapes speakers' syntactic production, namely grammatical…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Fichman, Sveta; Walters, Joel; Melamed, Ravit; Altman, Carmit – First Language, 2022
This research analyzed adequacy of referential expressions in the narratives of bilingual and monolingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and typical language development (TLD), aiming to shed light on the relative contribution of morpho-syntactic, discourse-pragmatic, and semantic constraints. Narratives were collected from 51…
Descriptors: Russian, Semitic Languages, Preschool Children, Story Telling
Schaeffer, Jeannette – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
This study addresses the question as to what cognitive abilities influence performance on article choice and direct object scrambling in high-functioning Dutch-speaking children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Schaeffer (2016/2018) shows that a group of 27 high-functioning Dutch-speaking children with ASD, aged 5-14, overgenerates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Nic Fhlannchadha, Siobhán; Hickey, Tina M. – Language and Education, 2019
There can be significant diversity in the language experience of minority language children, and in the levels of proficiency reached. The declining numbers of children now exposed to Irish include those from homes where only/mainly Irish is spoken, those with only one Irish-speaking parent, and children from homes where one/both parent(s) speak…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Language Minorities, Irish, Language Usage
Tahara, Nobuko – English Language Teaching, 2022
The present study attempts to identify difficulties that Japanese students encounter with metadiscursive nouns in writing second language (L2) argumentation essays. Metadiscursive nouns are abstract and unspecific nouns which can serve as cohesive markers by retrieving their meanings in the text where they occur. Using a selected number of nouns…
Descriptors: Nouns, Persuasive Discourse, Phrase Structure, Essays