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Feng, Ye; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The ability to map similar sounding words to different meanings alone is far from enough for successful speech processing. To overcome variability in the speech signal, young learners must also recognize words across surface variations. Previous studies have shown that infants at 14 months are able to use variations in word-internal cues (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Developmental Stages, Phonology, Intonation
Olga Temple; Syeda Sana Fatima – Online Submission, 2018
This paper is a follow-up on our 2017 study of the effect of Age of Onset of learning English (AO) on the academic performance of University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) students in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS). It investigates the relationship between three factors in the students' Early Language Education {Age of Onset of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Frota, Sónia; Butler, Joseph; Correia, Susana; Severino, Cátia; Vicente, Selene; Vigário, Marina – First Language, 2016
This article describes the European Portuguese MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms, the first published instruments for the assessment of language development in EP-learning infants and toddlers. Normative data from the EP population are presented, focusing on developmental trends for vocabulary learning, production…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Skills, Measures (Individuals)
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Dabrowska, Ewa; Demuth, Katherine; Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Echols, Catharine H.; Leonard, Laurence B.; Lleo, Conxita; Lopez-Ornat, Susana; Menn, Lise; Feldman, Andrea; Radford, Andrew; Veneziano, Edy; Vihman, Marilyn May; Velleman, Shelley L. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Various commentaries are included in response to an article on filler syllables and their status in emerging grammar. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Generalization, Grammar
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Roberts, Julie – Journal of Child Language, 1997
Examined the pattern of deletion of final "/t/" and "/d/" in word final consonant clusters in 3- and 4-year-old children (n=16) and their degree of mastery of phonological and grammatical constraints. Results indicate that children as young as three had mastered the phonological constraints on (-t, d) deletion and that the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Developmental Stages, Distinctive Features (Language)