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Direct linkKeshavarzi, Mahmoud; Di Liberto, Giovanni M.; Gabrielczyk, Fiona; Wilson, Angela; Macfarlane, Annabel; Goswami, Usha – Developmental Science, 2024
The prevalent "core phonological deficit" model of dyslexia proposes that the reading and spelling difficulties characterizing affected children stem from prior developmental difficulties in processing speech sound structure, for example, perceiving and identifying syllable stress patterns, syllables, rhymes and phonemes. Yet spoken word…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Speech Communication, Syllables, Intonation
Marina Kalashnikova; Leher Singh; Angeline Tsui; Eylem Altuntas; Denis Burnham; Ryan Cannistraci; Ng Bee Chin; Ye Feng; Laura Fernández-Merino; Antonia Götz; Lisa Gustavsson; Jessica Hay; Barbara Höhle; René Kager; Regine Lai; Liquan Liu; Ellen Marklund; Thierry Nazzi; Daniela Santos Oliveira; Anne Marte Haug Olstad; Anthony Picaud; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Feng-Ming Tsao; Patrick C. M. Wong; Pei Jun Woo – Developmental Science, 2024
We report the findings of a multi-language and multi-lab investigation of young infants' ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language experience, as well as of tone properties. Given the high prevalence of lexical tones across human languages, understanding lexical tone acquisition is fundamental…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Angelica Buerkin-Pontrelli; Daniel Swingley – Developmental Science, 2025
When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object) more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? We examined English learning 14-15-month-olds' capacity for linking referents in scenes with bisyllabic nonce utterances. Each of the two syllables referred either to the object's identity,…
Descriptors: Infants, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Language Acquisition
Shi, Jinyu; Gu, Yan; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Developmental Science, 2023
Child-directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two questions: (1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word familiarity (known or unknown to the child) and accessibility of referent (visually present or absent from the immediate environment); (2) whether such modulations affect…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Arenillas-Alcón, Sonia; Ribas-Prats, Teresa; Puertollano, Marta; Mondéjar-Segovia, Alejandro; Gómez-Roig, María Dolores; Costa-Faidella, Jordi; Escera, Carles – Developmental Science, 2023
Fetal hearing experiences shape the linguistic and musical preferences of neonates. From the very first moment after birth, newborns prefer their native language, recognize their mother's voice, and show a greater responsiveness to lullabies presented during pregnancy. Yet, the neural underpinnings of this experience inducing plasticity have…
Descriptors: Prenatal Influences, Neonates, Music, Speech
Hsin-Hui Lu; Hong-Hsiang Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao – Developmental Science, 2024
This study examined how Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with and without a history of late talking (LT) process familiar monosyllabic words with unexpected lexical tones, focusing on both phonological and semantic violations. This study initially enrolled 64 Mandarin-speaking toddlers: 31 with a history of LT (mean age: 27.67 months) and 33 without…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Delayed Speech, Mandarin Chinese, Cognitive Processes
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
François, Clément; Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni; Teixidó, Maria; Agut, Thaïs; Bosch, Laura – Developmental Science, 2021
Recent findings have revealed that very preterm neonates already show the typical brain responses to place of articulation changes in stop consonants, but data on their sensitivity to other types of phonetic changes remain scarce. Here, we examined the impact of 7-8 weeks of extra-uterine life on the automatic processing of syllables in 20 healthy…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Brain, Responses, Auditory Stimuli
Esteve-Gibert, Núria; Loevenbruck, Hélène; Dohen, Marion; D'Imperio, Mariapaola – Developmental Science, 2022
Previous evidence suggests that children's mastery of prosodic modulations to signal the informational status of discourse referents emerges quite late in development. In the present study, we investigate the children's use of head gestures as it compares to prosodic cues to signal a referent as being contrastive relative to a set of possible…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Alexopoulos, Johanna; Giordano, Vito; Janda, Charlotte; Benavides-Varela, Silvia; Seidl, Rainer; Doering, Stephan; Berger, Angelika; Bartha-Doering, Lisa – Developmental Science, 2021
Auditory speech discrimination is essential for normal language development. Children born preterm are at greater risk of language developmental delays. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy at term-equivalent age, the present study investigated early discrimination of speech prosody in 62 neonates born between week 23 and 41 of gestational…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Auditory Discrimination, Language Acquisition
