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Pronina, Mariia; Prieto, Pilar; Bischetti, Luca; Bambini, Valentina – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Pragmatics, Suprasegmentals, Preschool Children
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Lippeveld, Marie; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko – Language Learning and Development, 2020
The cross-categorical use of nouns and verbs poses a challenging problem to young language learners because they are known to be less willing to accept that a single form of a word be used for more than one linguistic purpose (e.g., one-form/one-function principle). The present study investigated whether children under 3 years of age are able to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Law, Franzo, II; Edwards, Jan R. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
This study was designed to investigate the relationship between vocabulary size and the speed and accuracy of lexical processing in preschoolers between the ages of 30 and 46 months using an automatic eye tracking task based on the looking-while-listening paradigm (Fernald, Zangl, Portillo, & Marchman, 2008) and mispronunciation paradigm…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Auditory Stimuli, Pictorial Stimuli