NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards5
Showing 151 to 165 of 5,713 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sarvasy, Hannah S. – First Language, 2021
Studies of the acquisition of verbs tend to focus on one-verb predicates of the prevalent English type. But in hundreds of languages around the world, multi-verb predicates like serial verb constructions are widely used. It could be reasoned that children should begin producing simple, single-verb predicates before they are able to produce…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Languages
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nencheva, Mira L.; Piazza, Elise A.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Developmental Science, 2021
Young children have an overall preference for child-directed speech (CDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and its structural features are thought to facilitate language learning. Many studies have supported these findings, but less is known about processing of CDS at short, sub-second timescales. How do the moment-to-moment dynamics of CDS…
Descriptors: Child Language, Speech Communication, Intonation, Attention
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sulek, Rhylee; Smith, Jodie; Bent, Catherine Anne; Hudry, Kristelle; Trembath, David; Vivanti, Giacomo; Dissanayake, Cheryl – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: There is growing understanding of the potential benefits of a multi-method approach to accurately capture language skills of children on the autism spectrum. Tools such as Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) provide an efficient means of capturing and analysing early child vocalizations (CVs) and the language learning environment.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Language Skills, Verbal Communication
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Syrett, Kristen; Aravind, Athulya – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Previous research has documented that children count spatiotemporally-distinct partial objects as if they were whole objects. This behavior extends beyond counting to inclusion of partial objects in assessment and comparisons of quantities. Multiple accounts of this performance have been proposed: children and adults differ qualitatively in their…
Descriptors: Semantics, Context Effect, Nouns, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McClay, Elise K.; Cebioglu, Senay; Broesch, Tanya; Yeung, H. Henny – Developmental Science, 2022
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is phonetically distinct from adult-directed speech (ADS): It is typically considered to have special prosody--like higher pitch and slower speaking rates--as well as unique speech sound properties, for example, more breathy, hyperarticulated, and/or variable consonant and vowel articulation. These phonetic features…
Descriptors: Child Language, Phonetics, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jiang, Hang; Frank, Michael C.; Kulkarni, Vivek; Fourtassi, Abdellah – Cognitive Science, 2022
The linguistic input children receive across early childhood plays a crucial role in shaping their knowledge about the world. To study this input, researchers have begun applying distributional semantic models to large corpora of child-directed speech, extracting various patterns of word use/co-occurrence. Previous work using these models has not…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Linguistic Input, Semantics
Tamarit-Galdon, Marc – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Child Language Brokering is a very common phenomenon for Latinx/a/o children of immigrants, who usually begin language serving as translators and interpreters at a young age and carry these roles into adulthood. Yet, despite the prevalence of Child Language Brokering, the findings of existing research still do not agree on the impact of this…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Quynh Dam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Bilingualism continues to increase with more than 350 different languages spoken in the United States, and more than 21% of people over the age of five (approximately 66 million people) speaking a language other than English at home (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). Many bilingual children in the US speak a minority first language (L1) and English as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, English (Second Language), Child Language
Shuyan Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scalar implicatures (SIs) lie at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, and therefore have evoked great interest for language acquisition research. Many acquisition studies show that young children know the literal semantics of scalar items (like "some", "might", "start" and "or") but have…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Henrikson, Brenna; Seidl, Amanda; Soderstrom, Melanie – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We examined full-term and preterm infants' perception of frequent and infrequent phonotactic pairings involving sibilants and liquids. Infants were tested on their preference for syllables with onsets involving /s/ or /?/ followed by /l/ or /r/ using the Headturn Preference Procedure. Full-term infants preferred the frequent to the infrequent…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Child Language, Speech Communication, Syllables
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cassani, Giovanni; Chuang, Yu-Ying; Baayen, R. Harald – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Using computational simulations, this work demonstrates that it is possible to learn a systematic relation between words' sound and their meanings. The sound-meaning relation was learned from a corpus of phonologically transcribed child-directed speech by using the linear discriminative learning (LDL) framework (Baayen, Chuang, Shafaei-Bajestan,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Vocabulary, Classification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kushner, Elizabeth H.; Britsch, Emily Roemer; Iverson, Jana M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Early in development, caregivers' object labelling contributes to children's word learning. Language development is a bi-directional process, and differences in joint engagement (JE) and language among children with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may provide caregivers varying contexts and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, At Risk Persons
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aravind, Athulya; Koring, Loes – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children's understanding of passives of certain mental state predicates appears to lag behind passives of so-called actional predicates, an asymmetry that has posed a major empirical challenge for theories of passive acquisition. This paper argues against the dominant view in the literature that treats the predicate-based asymmetry as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Syntax
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Imhof, Andrea; Liu, Sihong; Schlueter, Lisa; Phu, Tiffany; Watamura, Sarah; Fisher, Philip – Prevention Science, 2023
Young children from low-SES backgrounds are at higher risk for delayed language development, likely due to differences in their home language environment and decreased opportunities for back and forth communicative exchange. Intervention strategies that encourage reciprocal caregiver-child interactions may effectively promote young children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Expressive Language, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sylvestre, Audette; Di Sante, Mélissa; Leblond, Jean – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study aimed to (a) provide speech-language pathologists and researchers with a play-based procedure to measure the expression of spoken communicative intents by children aged 3 to 4.5 years and (b) present indicators of these children's capacity to produce these intents in this context. Method: A method inspired by TRIAGE (Technique…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Oral Language, Speech Language Pathology
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  ...  |  381