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Jones, Caroline; Meakins, Felicity; Muawiyath, Shujau – Language Learning, 2012
Distributional learning is a proposal for how infants might learn early speech sound categories from acoustic input before they know many words. When categories in the input differ greatly in relative frequency and overlap in acoustic space, research in bilingual development suggests that this affects the course of development. In the present…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Foreign Countries, Vowels, Bilingualism
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Andersen, Claire Elizabeth; Marinac, Julie V. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
The correlation between the communicative intent of parents, in terms of their expectation of a response and the response patterns of young children aged 23-25 months during parent-child interactions, was investigated. An Observational Framework was used to code these parameters in interactions between 36 children and their mothers. The children…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Young Children, Multivariate Analysis, Parent Child Relationship