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Aoyama, Katsura; Reid, Lawrence A. – First Language, 2016
This study reports on the acquisition of quantity contrasts in Guina-ang Bontok, an indigenous language spoken in the Philippines. Four-year-old and 5-year-old children's perception and production of quantity contrasts were examined using a pair of names that contrast in the quantity of the medial nasal. Frequencies of the quantity contrast were…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Indigenous Populations, Native Language
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Service, Elisabet; Yli-Kaitala, Hely; Maury, Sini; Kim, Jeong-Young – Language Learning, 2014
Although the significance of age in second language acquisition is one of the most hotly debated issues in the field, very few studies have directly addressed age differences in the language learning process. The present study investigated learning in a foreign-word repetition task. Young Finnish adults and 8-year-olds repeated back Korean words.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Age Differences, Task Analysis