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Thomas E. Malloy; Beverly Goldfield; Avraham N. Kluger – International Journal of Listening, 2024
Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) predicts that people adjust their language to match that of the other to promote comprehension, coordinate action, and facilitate harmonious relationships. CAT predicts that mothers will adjust their sentence length and complexity to match those of children. Prior tests of CAT confounded trait-like language…
Descriptors: Mothers, Interpersonal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Language Usage
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Ninio, Anat – First Language, 2019
In children acquiring various languages, the early mastery of determiners strongly predicts syntactic development. What makes determiners important is not yet clear as there is a linguistic controversy regarding their syntactic behaviour. Some consider determiners to be similar to adjectives and to modify common nouns, while others consider the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, English, Nouns
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Rispoli, Matthew – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This tutorial is an introduction to first phase syntax (FPS; Ramchand, 2008). FPS provides a new, cross-linguistically motivated perspective on clause internal structure. A new sequence of syntactic development is proposed based on FPS with 4 levels of complexity: (0) verb particles and adjectives in the 1-word stage, (1) semantic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Tutorial Programs, Verbs, Semantics
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Rispoli, Matthew – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This article focuses on toddlers' revisions of the sentence subject and tests the hypothesis that subject diversity (i.e., the number of different subjects produced) increases the probability of subject revision. Method: One-hour language samples were collected from 61 children (32 girls) at 27 months. Spontaneously produced, active…
Descriptors: Grammar, Toddlers, Sentences, Probability
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Krok, Windi C.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study was specifically designed to examine how verb variability and verb overlap in a morphosyntactic priming task affect typically developing children's use and generalization of auxiliary IS. Method: Forty typically developing 2- to 3-year-old native English-speaking children with inconsistent auxiliary IS production were primed…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Priming, Task Analysis
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Novogrodsky, Rama; Meir, Natalia; Michael, Rachel – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: While considerable research exists on morphosyntax of school-age children with hearing impairment (HI), little is known about development of morphosyntax at younger ages. Some studies show that young children with HI have a delay in language abilities compared with children with normal hearing (NH); conversely, other studies show…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Hearing Impairments, Sentences, Repetition
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Thornton, Rosalind; Rombough, Kelly – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
To test between two recent accounts of the early stages in the acquisition of negation, we conducted an elicited production study with 25 children, between 2;05 and 3;04 (mean 2;11). The experimental study produced a robust set of negative sentences, with considerable individual variation. Although 13 of the child participants mainly produced…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Toddlers
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Kline, Melissa; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2014
To understand how children develop adult argument structure, we must understand the nature of syntactic and semantic representations during development. The present studies compare the performance of children aged 2;6 on the two intransitive alternations in English: patient ("Daddy is cooking the food"/"The food is cooking")…
Descriptors: Syntax, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Verbs
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Gertner, Yael; Fisher, Cynthia – Cognition, 2012
Children use syntax to interpret sentences and learn verbs; this is syntactic bootstrapping. The structure-mapping account of early syntactic bootstrapping proposes that a partial representation of sentence structure, the "set of nouns" occurring with the verb, guides initial interpretation and provides an abstract format for new learning. This…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Comprehension, Sentences, Verbs
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Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Falcon, Alberto; Alva-Canto, Elda A. – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2013
Grammatical gender embedded in determiners, nouns and adjectives allows indirect and more rapid processing of the referents implied in sentences. However in a language such as Spanish, this useful information cannot be reliably retrieved from a single source of information. Instead, noun gender may be extracted either from phono-morphological,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Cues, Morphology (Languages), Sentences
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Messenger, Katherine; Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Children recruit verb syntax to guide verb interpretation. We asked whether 22-month-olds spontaneously encode information about a particular novel verb's syntactic properties through listening to sentences, retain this information in long-term memory over a filled delay, and retrieve it to guide interpretation upon hearing the same novel verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
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Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia; Snedeker, Jesse – Child Development, 2012
Two-year-olds use the sentence structures verbs appear in--"subcategorization frames"--to guide verb learning. This is syntactic bootstrapping. This study probed the developmental origins of this ability. The structure-mapping account proposes that children begin with a bias toward one-to-one mapping between nouns in sentences and participant…
Descriptors: Cues, Sentences, Verbs, Nouns
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Arunachalam, Sudha; Waxman, Sandra R. – Cognition, 2010
When toddlers view an event while hearing a novel verb, the verb's syntactic context has been shown to help them identify its meaning. The current work takes this finding one step further to reveal that even in the absence of an accompanying event, syntactic information supports toddlers' identification of verb meaning. Two-year-olds were first…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers
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Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Ariyama, Junko; Kobayashi, Tessei; Katerelos, Marina; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The present study investigated whether children's representations of morphosyntactic information are abstract enough to guide early verb learning. Using an infant-controlled habituation paradigm with a switch design, Japanese-speaking children aged 1 ; 8 were habituated to two different events in which an object was engaging in an action. Each…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Sentences, Speech Communication, Verbs
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja, Urska; Podlesek, Anja; Kranjc, Simona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
According to the findings of several studies, parents' assessments of their toddler's language are valid and reliable evaluations of children's language competence, especially at early development stages. This study examined whether preschool teachers, who spend a relatively great deal of time with toddlers in various preschool activities and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Teachers, Language Acquisition, Evaluation Methods
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