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Ramon-Casas, Marta; Cortes, Susana; Benet, Ariadna; Lleo, Conxita; Bosch, Laura – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigates perception and production of the Catalan mid-vowel /e/-/[epsilon]/ contrast by two groups of 4.5-year-old Catalan-Spanish bilingual children, differing in language dominance. Perception was assessed with an XAB discrimination task involving familiar words and non-words. Production accuracy was measured using a familiar-word…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Spanish, Language Dominance
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Hoff, Erika; Core, Cynthia; Shanks, Katherine F. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Many children learn language, in part, from the speech of non-native speakers who vary in their language proficiency. To investigate the influence of speaker proficiency on the quality of child-directed speech, 29 mothers who were native English speakers and 31 mothers who were native speakers of Spanish and who reported speaking English to their…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Mothers
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Montanari, Simona; Ochoa, Wendy; Subrahmanyam, Kaveri – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examines language mixing in 26 Spanish-English dual language learners over the course of their first year of preschool. The children's patterns of language choice while interacting in monolingual language contexts were analyzed at age 3;6 and 4;5 to examine: (1) whether the frequency of language mixing changed during the year; (2)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Spanish, English
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Tulloch, Michelle K.; Hoff, Erika – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In this preregistered, longitudinal study of early code-switching, 34 US-born, Spanish-English bilingual children were recorded with a bilingual family member at 2;6 and 3;6, in Spanish-designated and English-designated interactions. Children's Spanish and English expressive vocabulary and their exposure to code-switching were measured through…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Spanish
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Gelman, Susan A.; Tapia, Ingrid Sánchez; Leslie, Sarah-Jane – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Generic language ("Owls eat at night") expresses knowledge about categories and may represent a cognitively default mode of generalization. English-speaking children and adults more accurately recall generic than quantified sentences ("All owls eat at night") and tend to recall quantified sentences as generic. However, generics…
Descriptors: Memory, Recall (Psychology), Language Usage, Child Language
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Shin, Naomi Lapidus – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Constraints on linguistic variation are consistent across adult speakers, yielding probabilistic and systematic patterns. Yet, little is known about the development of such patterns during childhood. This study investigates Spanish subject pronoun expression in naturalistic data from 154 monolingual children in Mexico, divided into four age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Children, Spanish
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Gampe, Anja; Hartmann, Leonie; Daum, Moritz M. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Bilingual children show a number of advantages in the domain of communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether differences in interactions are present before productive language skills emerge. For a duration of 5 minutes, 64 parents and their 14-month-old infants explored a decorated room together. The coordination of their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Griffin, Zenzi M.; Hixon, J. Gregory – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study evaluates the effects of Age of Exposure to English (AoEE) and Current Input/Output on language performance in a cross-sectional sample of Spanish-English bilingual children. First- (N = 586) and third-graders (N = 298) who spanned a wide range of bilingual language experience participated. Parents and teachers provided information…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Language Acquisition
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Sagae, Kenji; Davis, Eric; Lavie, Alon; MacWhinney, Brian; Wintner, Shuly – Journal of Child Language, 2010
Corpora of child language are essential for research in child language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Linguistic annotation of the corpora provides researchers with better means for exploring the development of grammatical constructions and their usage. We describe a project whose goal is to annotate the English section of the CHILDES database…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
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Shiro, Martha – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Examined Venezuelan children's developing abilities to use evaluative language in fictional and personal narratives. Looks at whether the use of evaluative language varies in fictional and personal narratives, there is a relationship between the use of evaluative language in these two narrative genres, and and the role children's age and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Styles
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Blount, Ben G.; Padgug, Elise J. – Journal of Child Language, 1977
When speaking to young children just acquiring language, parents employ certain appropriate language features. Parental speech in English and Spanish was analyzed for presence and distribution of these features. Differences were noted, yet there was a high degree of similarity across parents and languages for frequently occuring features. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
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Melzi, Gigliana; King, Kendall A. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Examined gender and age patterns of diminutive use in conversations between Spanish-speaking Peruvian mothers and their 3- and 5-year-old children. Results confirm previous findings concerning both parents' greater use of diminutives with younger children and children's early acquisition of this aspect of morphology. Findings do not support…
Descriptors: Age, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
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Anderson, Raquel; Smith, Bruce L. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Phonetic and phonological analysis of spontaneous speech of six 2-year-old monolingual Puerto Rican Spanish-learning children revealed several sound usage patterns similar to those found in English and other language-learning children, supporting the claim that certain universal patterns exist in phonological development. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
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Cain, Jacquelin; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Investigation of native English-speaking adults' and native Spanish-speaking children's acquisition of noun gender and its function in Spanish revealed significant differences in first- and second-language acquisition, suggesting a developmental progression in acquisition of noun gender for both groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Cognitive Style, College Students