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Köymen, Bahar; Lieven, Elena; Brandt, Silke – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigates the coordination of matrix and subordinate clauses within finite complement-clause constructions. The data come from diary and audio recordings which include the utterances produced by an American English-speaking child, L, between the ages 1;08 and 3;05. We extracted all the finite complement-clause constructions that L…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Syntax, Semantics
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Wang, Yuanyuan; Seidl, Amanda; Cristia, Alejandrina – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Previous studies have shown that infant-directed speech (IDS) differs from adult-directed speech (ADS) on a variety of dimensions. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether acoustic differences between IDS and ADS in English are modulated by prosodic structure. We compared vowels across the two registers (IDS, ADS) in both stressed…
Descriptors: Infants, Adults, Acoustics, Speech Communication
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Aoyama, Katsura; Peters, Ann M.; Winchester, Kimberly S. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
We investigated developmental changes during the transition from one-word to two-word production, focusing on strategies to lengthen utterances phonologically and to control utterances suprasegmentally. We hypothesized that there is a period of reorganization at the onset of word combinations indicated by decreases in both filler syllables…
Descriptors: Syllables, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Child Development