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Ní Chéileachair, Fódhla; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Sorace, Antonella; Paradis, Johanne; De Aguiar, Vânia – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The current study sought to investigate whether word properties can facilitate the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in sequential bilinguals by analyzing properties in nouns and verbs in L2 spontaneous speech as potential DLD markers. Measures of semantic (imageability, concreteness), lexical (frequency, age of acquisition)…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Bilingualism, Nouns
Smith, Sara A.; Leon Guerrero, Sibylla; Surrain, Sarah; Luk, Gigi – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study explores variation in phonemic representation among Spanish--English dual language learners (DLLs, n = 60) who were dominant in English or in Spanish. Children were given a phonetic discrimination task with speech sounds that: 1) occur in English and Spanish, 2) are exclusive to English, and 3) are exclusive to Russian, during…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Auditory Discrimination, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jasper Hong Sim; Brechtje Post – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Linguistic input in multi-lingual/-cultural contexts is highly variable. We examined the production of English and Malay laterals by fourteen early bilingual preschoolers in Singapore who were exposed to several allophones of coda laterals: Malay caregivers use predominantly clear-l in English and Malay, but their English coda laterals can also be…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Child Language, Indonesian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship
Kremin, Lena V.; Alves, Julia; Orena, Adriel John; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In a pre-registered study, we identified instances of code-switching in day-long at-home audio recordings of 21 French-English bilingual families in Montreal, Canada, who provided recordings…
Descriptors: Infants, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Parent Child Relationship
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
Limia, Valery; Ozcaliskan, Seyda; Hoff, Erika – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Monolingual children identify referents uniquely in gesture before they do so with words, and parents translate these gestures into words. Children benefit from these translations, acquiring the words that their parents translated earlier than the ones that are not translated. Are bilingual children as likely as monolingual children to identify…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Parent Child Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, Vocabulary Development
Setoh, Peipei; Cheng, Michelle; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Is noun dominance in early lexical acquisition a widespread or a language-specific phenomenon? Thirty Singaporean bilingual English-Mandarin learning toddlers and their mothers were observed in a mother-child play interaction. For both English and Mandarin, toddlers' speech and reported vocabulary contained more nouns than verbs across book…
Descriptors: Nouns, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Levy, Helena; Konieczny, Lars; Hanulikova, Adriana – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Substantial individual differences exist in regard to type and amount of experience with variable speech resulting from foreign or regional accents. Whereas prior experience helps with processing familiar accents, research on how experience with accented speech affects processing of unfamiliar accents is inconclusive, ranging from perceptual…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Processing
Bail, Amelie; Morini, Giovanna; Newman, Rochelle S. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
We examined code-switching (CS) in the speech of twenty-four bilingual caregivers when speaking with their 18- to 24-month-old children. All parents CS at least once in a short play session, and some code-switched quite often (over 1/3 of utterances). This CS included both inter-sentential and intra-sentential switches, suggesting that at least…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Speech Communication, Code Switching (Language), Vocabulary Development
Mayr, Robert; Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This paper examines the production of word-initial stops by two simultaneous trilingual sisters, aged 6;8 and 8;1, who receive regular input in Italian and English from multiple speakers, but in Spanish from only one person. The children's productions in each language were analyzed acoustically and compared to those of their main input providers.…
Descriptors: Phonology, Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Italian
Hahn, Erin R.; Cantrell, Lisa – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Considerable research has demonstrated that English-speaking children extend nouns on the basis of shape. Here we asked whether the development of this bias is influenced by the structure of a child's primary language. We tested English- and Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 1 ; 10 and 3 ; 4 in a novel noun generalization task. Results…
Descriptors: Children, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking

Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Alioto, Anthony – Journal of Child Language, 1995
This study used three experiments to study whether infant-directed (ID) or adult-directed (AD) speech facilitated the learning of Chinese vocabulary by adults whose native language was English and who had had no prior knowledge of Chinese. Results indicate that ID speech may play a pivotal role in early lexical acquisition. (51 references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Infants, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese