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Phonological Development of Monolingual Haitian Creole-Speaking Preschool Children
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Archer, Justine; Champion, Tempii; Tyrone, Martha E.; Walters, Sylvia – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2018
This study provides preliminary data on the phonological development of Haitian Creole-Speaking children. The purpose of this study is to determine phonological acquisition in the speech of normally developing monolingual Haitian Creole-Speaking preschoolers, ages 2 to 4. Speech samples were collected cross-sectionally from 12 Haitian children…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Preschool Children, Creoles
Infants' Background Television Exposure during Play: Negative Relations to the Quantity and Quality of Mothers' Speech and Infants' Vocabulary Acquisition
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Masur, Elise Frank; Flynn, Valerie; Olson, Janet – First Language, 2016
Research on immediate effects of background television during mother-infant toy play shows that an operating television in the room disrupts maternal communicative behaviors crucial for infants' vocabulary acquisition. This study is the first to examine associations between frequent background TV/video exposure during mother-infant toy play at…
Descriptors: Infants, Television Viewing, Play, Toys
Developing Socio-Cultural Scaffolding Model to Elicit Learners's Speech Production
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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
The Role of Experience in the Perception of Phonetic Detail in Children's Speech: A Comparison between Speech-Language Pathologists and Clinically Untrained Listeners
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Munson, Benjamin; Johnson, Julie M.; Edwards, Jan – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined whether experienced speech-language pathologists (SLPs) differ from inexperienced people in their perception of phonetic detail in children's speech. Method: Twenty-one experienced SLPs and 21 inexperienced listeners participated in a series of tasks in which they used a visual-analog scale (VAS) to rate children's…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Predictor Variables, Speech Language Pathology, College Students
Word Juncture Behaviours in Young Children's Spontaneous Speech Production
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Thompson, Joy; Howard, Sara – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
The present study explores word boundary behaviours in the spontaneous speech of a group of 6 preschool children. Speech collected in play settings is examined for the presence of normal and atypical connected speech behaviours, and to identify specific instances of open and close word juncture behaviours. The findings suggest that developmental…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Preschool Children, Play, Child Development
Age and Length of Residence as Variables Related to the Adjustment of Migrant Children, with Special Reference to Second Language Learning.
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Ekstrand, Lars Henric – 1975
About 2,200 immigrant children in Sweden were studied by means of tests and teacher questionnaires. The children, representing 36 nationalities, were born outside Sweden and were distributed over the nine grades of the Swedish Comprehensive School. Various functional language skills in Swedish as a second language (L2), nonverbal intelligence and…
Descriptors: Age, Child Language, Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence