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Elly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025
This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Charles Patrick O'Hara – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the soft typology of phonological patterns. By studying the types of patterns observed in the world's languages, we can do more than determine what is attested and what is unattested, or what is possible and what is impossible, but discover a wide range of more gradient phenomena. Phonological patterns range from…
Descriptors: Bias, Phonology, Grammar, Language Classification
Joan Birulés; Ferran Pons; Laura Bosch – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Successful language learning in bilinguals requires the differentiation of two language systems. The capacity to discriminate rhythmically close languages has been reported in 4-month-olds using auditory-only stimuli. This research offers a novel perspective on early language discrimination using audiovisual material. Monolingual and bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Infants, Bilingualism
Trecca, Fabio; Tylén, Kristian; Højen, Anders; Christiansen, Morten H. – Language Learning, 2021
It is often assumed that all languages are fundamentally the same. This assumption has been challenged by research in linguistic typology and language evolution, but questions of language learning and use have largely been left aside. Here we review recent work on Danish that provides new insights into these questions. Unlike closely related…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Indo European Languages, Language Classification, Phonetics
Shuxiao Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological learning is a biased process: certain phonological patterns are easily accessed and learned by the speakers, while others show acquisition difficulties. These differences…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Chen, Hui; Labertonière, Dahliane; Cheung, Hintat; Nazzi, Thierry – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Infants attune to their native language during the first two years of life, as attested by decreases in the processing of nonnative phonological sounds and reductions in the range of possible sounds accepted as labels for native words. The present study shows that French-learning infants aged 1;8 can learn new words in an unfamiliar language,…
Descriptors: Infants, Native Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Laurence B. Leonard; Mariel L. Schroeder – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The main goal of this tutorial is to promote the study of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across different languages of the world. The cumulative effect of these efforts is likely to be a set of more compelling and comprehensive theories of language learning difficulties and, possibly, of language acquisition in general.…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Developmental Delays, Morphology (Languages)
Schepens, Job J.; van Hout, Roeland W. N. M.; van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (Ln) in speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 adult immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands for study or work. Performance for all four language skills turned out to decline monotonically after an age of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McBride, Catherine; Pan, Dora Jue; Mohseni, Fateme – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We review cognitive-linguistic approaches to conveying meaning, sound, and orthographic information across scripts in order to highlight the impact of variability in written and spoken language on learning to read and to write words. With examples of word recognition and word writing from different scripts, including Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Psychomotor Skills, Spelling, Written Language
Havy, Mélanie; Bouchon, Camillia; Nazzi, Thierry – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Infants have remarkable abilities to learn several languages. However, phonological acquisition in bilingual infants appears to vary depending on the phonetic similarities or differences of their two native languages. Many studies suggest that learning contrasts with different realizations in the two languages (e.g., the /p/, /t/, /k/ stops have…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition
Missaglia, Federica – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
This paper is concerned with a specific case of L3 acquisition: the starting position for English vowel acquisition by infant German-Italian bilinguals will be investigated in light of prototype theory. The chosen example of triple language contact is characterised by consecutive bilingualism as the basis of L3 acquisition, where the learners' L2…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Phonetics, Vowels, Phonology
Cuetos, Fernando; Suarez-Coalla, Paz – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The relationship between written words and their pronunciation varies considerably among different orthographic systems, and these variations have repercussions on learning to read. Children whose languages have deep orthographies must learn to pronounce larger units, such as rhymes, morphemes, or whole words, to achieve the correct pronunciation…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Pronunciation, Phonology, Morphemes

Hsieh, Hsin-I – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Revised version of a paper presented at the 1970 summer meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. Research leading to the paper supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant to the Phonology Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects

Lehmann, W. P. – Language, 1973
Research on which portions of this study are based was performed under a National Science Foundation Grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. (VM)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology

Birkenmayer, Sigmund S.
This paper discusses the relationship of Polish to the other languages considered to be within the Slavic group. The comparison is mainly phonological and considers the Proto-Slavic features still preserved in Polish as well as the distinctive features of Polish which have developed from Proto-Slavic. The development of vowels and consonants is…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
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