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Yang, Jing – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study compared the temporal measurements of stop consonants in 29 three- to six-year-old Mandarin-speaking children and 12 Mandarin-speaking adults. Each participant produced 18 Mandarin disyllabic words which contained six stop consonants /p, p?, t, t?, k, k?/ each followed by three vowels /a, i, u/ at the word-initial position in the first…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay; Kim, Eun Sook – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study investigates both the proximal processes and contextual influences on children's oral language development in preschool. We examine whether teacher language practices vary across activity settings and program type, which teacher language practices predict children's oral language skills, and potential…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Context Effect, Oral Language, Language Acquisition
Lindgren, Josefin – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study investigates effects of age on character introductions in the oral narratives of seventy-two monolingual Swedish-speaking four- to six-year-olds, comparing results from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN; Gagarina "et al.," 2012, 2015), and the Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI; Schneider…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Swedish, Oral Language, Monolingualism
Zampini, Laura; Burla, Tiziana; Silibello, Gaia; Capelli, Elena; Dall'Ara, Francesca; Rigamonti, Claudia; Ajmone, Paola Francesca; Monti, Federico; Zanchi, Paola; Lalatta, Faustina; Costantino, Maria Antonella; Vizziello, Paola Giovanna – First Language, 2021
Individuals with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) have an increased risk of language delays and impairments. However, there are only a few data relative to their language development in early childhood. The present study aimed to investigate the preverbal skills shown by a group of 8-month-old children with SCTs to assess the presence of a possible…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Language Acquisition, Infants, Genetic Disorders
Contemori, Carla; Carlson, Matthew; Marinis, Theodoros – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Previous research has shown that children demonstrate similar sentence processing reflexes to those observed in adults, but they have difficulties revising an erroneous initial interpretation when they process garden-path sentences, passives, and "wh"-questions. We used the visual-world paradigm to examine children's use of syntactic and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Syntax, Ambiguity (Semantics), Eye Movements
Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena; Bailey, Jhonelle; Schmuck, Lauren – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Early spontaneous gesture, specifically deictic gesture, predicts subsequent vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. Here, we ask whether deictic gesture plays a similar role in predicting later vocabulary size in children with Down Syndrome (DS), who have been shown to have difficulties in speech production, but strengths in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication
Wood, Carla; Diehm, Emily A.; Callender, Maya F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: The current study was designed to (a) describe average hourly Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data for preschool-age Spanish--English bilinguals (SEBs) and typically developing monolingual peers and (b) compare LENA data with mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and total number of words (TNW) calculated on a selected sample of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English
Patkowski, Mark – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Previously published corpora of two-word utterances by three chimpanzees and three human children were compared to determine whether, as has been claimed, apes possess the same basic syntactic and semantic capacities as 2-year old children. Some similarities were observed in the type of semantic relations expressed by the two groups; however,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Animals, Semantics, Syntax
Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
Given that L1A of subject properties in non-null subject languages emerges later than that of null subject languages, this study aims at determining to what extent the same pattern of acquisition is observed in early child L2A in bilingual immersion settings where English and Spanish are both source and target languages. Using an elicited oral…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language, Bilingualism
Green, Katherine B.; Terry, Nicole Patton; Gallagher, Peggy A. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2014
Quality literacy instruction in preschool can be critical to the future academic success for all children, but may be even more so for children with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine progress in emergent literacy skills of young children with disabilities, compared with their typical peers, in an inclusive preschool setting.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Child Language, Disabilities
Bornstein, Marc H.; Hendricks, Charlene – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, language comprehension and production were compared in a sample of 101,250 children aged 2 ; 00 to 9 ; 11 and a focus subsample of 38,845 children aged 2 ; 00 to 4 ; 11 from sixteen under-researched developing nations. In the whole sample, comprehension slightly exceeded production; correlations between…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Children, Living Standards, Developing Nations
Li, Fangfang – Child Development, 2012
Speech productions of 40 English- and 40 Japanese-speaking children (aged 2-5) were examined and compared with the speech produced by 20 adult speakers (10 speakers per language). Participants were recorded while repeating words that began with "s" and "sh" sounds. Clear language-specific patterns in adults' speech were found,…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech, Oral Language, Adults
Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit; Levy-Shimon, Shany – Journal of Child Language, 2011
We compare learning of two inflection types--obligatory noun plurals and optional noun possessives. We tested 107 Hebrew-speaking children aged 6-7 on the same tasks at the beginning and end of first grade. Performance on both constructions improved during this short period, but plurals scored higher from the start, with improvement only in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Literacy Education, Speech, Nouns
Munson, Benjamin; Johnson, Julie M.; Edwards, Jan – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined whether experienced speech-language pathologists (SLPs) differ from inexperienced people in their perception of phonetic detail in children's speech. Method: Twenty-one experienced SLPs and 21 inexperienced listeners participated in a series of tasks in which they used a visual-analog scale (VAS) to rate children's…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Predictor Variables, Speech Language Pathology, College Students
Au, Terry Kit-fong; Oh, Janet S.; Knightly, Leah M.; Jun, Sun-Ah; Romo, Laura F. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Childhood experience with a language seems to help adult learners speak it with a more native-like accent. Can analogous benefits be found beyond phonology? This study focused on adult learners of Spanish who had spoken Spanish as their native language before age 7 and only minimally, if at all, thereafter until they began to re-learn Spanish…
Descriptors: Phonology, Child Language, Native Speakers, Pronunciation