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Andrew M. Meier; Frank H. Guenther – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This review describes a computational approach for modeling the development of speech motor control in infants. We address the development of two levels of control: articulation of individual speech sounds (defined here as phonemes, syllables, or words for which there is an optimized motor program) and production of sound sequences such as phrases…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Models
Qihui Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
How early do children produce multiword utterances? Do children's early utterances reflect abstract syntactic knowledge or are they the result of data-driven learning? We examine this issue through corpus analysis, computational modeling, and adult simulation experiments. Chapter 1 investigates when children start producing multiword utterances;…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, Computational Linguistics, Syntax
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Roete, Ingeborg; Frank, Stefan L.; Fikkert, Paula; Casillas, Marisa – Cognitive Science, 2020
We trained a computational model (the Chunk-Based Learner; CBL) on a longitudinal corpus of child-caregiver interactions in English to test whether one proposed statistical learning mechanism--backward transitional probability--is able to predict children's speech productions with stable accuracy throughout the first few years of development. We…
Descriptors: Statistics, Linguistic Input, Children, Speech Communication
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Kallay, Jeffrey E.; Dilley, Laura; Redford, Melissa A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study used a cross-sequential design to identify developmental changes in narrative speech rhythm and intonation. The aim was to provide a robust, clinically relevant characterization of normative changes in speech prosody across the early school-age years. Method: Structured spontaneous narratives were elicited annually from 60…
Descriptors: Intonation, Child Language, Longitudinal Studies, Child Development
Peter Organisciak; Michele Newman; David Eby; Selcuk Acar; Denis Dumas – Grantee Submission, 2023
Purpose: Most educational assessments tend to be constructed in a close-ended format, which is easier to score consistently and more affordable. However, recent work has leveraged computation text methods from the information sciences to make open-ended measurement more effective and reliable for older students. This study asks whether such text…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Child Language, Semantics, Age Differences
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Englishtina, Inti – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study is concerned with developing scaffolding model to elicit bilingual kindergarten children's English speech production. It is aimed at describing what the teachers need in eliciting their students' speech production; how a scaffolding model should be developed to elicit the children's speech production; and how effective is the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Models, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten
Fricke, Melinda Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Studies of connected speech have repeatedly shown that the contextual predictability of a word is related to its phonetic duration; more predictable words tend to be produced with shorter duration, when other factors are controlled for (Aylett & Turk, 2004, 2006; Bell et al., 2003; Bell, Brenier, Gregory, Girand, & Jurafsky, 2009; Gahl,…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Models, Speech Communication
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Metsala, Jamie L.; Chisholm, Gina M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study examined effects of lexical status and neighborhood density of constituent syllables on children's nonword repetition and interactions with nonword length. Lexical status of the target syllable impacted repetition accuracy for the longest nonwords. In addition, children made more errors that changed a nonword syllable to a word syllable…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Syllables, Error Analysis (Language), Children
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Waterfall, Heidi R.; Sandbank, Ben; Onnis, Luca; Edelman, Shimon – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This paper reports progress in developing a computer model of language acquisition in the form of (1) a generative grammar that is (2) algorithmically learnable from realistic corpus data, (3) viable in its large-scale quantitative performance and (4) psychologically real. First, we describe new algorithmic methods for unsupervised learning of…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics, Databases
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Monaghan, Padraic; Christiansen, Morten H. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
There are numerous models of how speech segmentation may proceed in infants acquiring their first language. We present a framework for considering the relative merits and limitations of these various approaches. We then present a model of speech segmentation that aims to reveal important sources of information for speech segmentation, and to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Phonology, Models, Infants
Braunwald, Susan R. – 1980
A range of language use model is proposed as an alternative conceptual framework to a stage model of egocentric speech. The range of language use model is proposed to clarify the meaning of the term egocentric speech, to examine the validity of stage assumptions, and to explain the existence of contextual variation in the form of children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Developmental Stages, Egocentrism
Karmiloff-Smith, Annette – 1983
The cognitive processes involved in a child's interaction with the linguistic environment are discussed. Specifically, the general cognitive processes involved in outputting long spans of connected utterances are examined. Narrative data are classified into three developmental levels: the procedural phase, where the linguistic output is generated…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Models
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Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Child Language, 1993
An infant girl's unusual phonological behavior was evaluated in light of a maternal model which appeared to exaggerate features of normal conversational speech. Parental responses to immature speech patterns may account for selected case study behaviors which have been reported in both the child phonology and child fluency literatures. (KM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Females, Infants
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Stathopoulos, Elaine T.; Sapienza, Christine M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
The development of the speech production system was investigated among 120 children (ages 4-14 years) and 20 adults. Aerodynamic and acoustic results suggest that men and 14-year-old boys function differently than women and all other groups of children. Data generally suggest that laryngeal and respiratory behavior of children is not easily…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Articulation Impairments, Child Language
Higginbotham, Dorothy; Reitzel, Armeda – 1977
Social cognition refers to that ability which makes it possible for one to infer another's covert, inner psychological experiences and to interact with that individual accordingly (Shantz 1975; Flavell 1977). Piaget (1926) maintains that the ability to decenter socially and to take into account the perspective of another develops gradually as the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Egocentrism
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