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Freudenthal, Daniel; Ramscar, Michael; Leonard, Laurence B.; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2021
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have significant deficits in language ability that cannot be attributed to neurological damage, hearing impairment, or intellectual disability. The symptoms displayed by children with DLD differ across languages. In English, DLD is often marked by severe difficulties acquiring verb inflection.…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Associative Learning
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Ota, Mitsuhiko; Davies-Jenkins, Nicola; Skarabela, Barbora – Cognitive Science, 2018
Across languages, lexical items specific to infant-directed speech (i.e., 'baby-talk words') are characterized by a preponderance of onomatopoeia (or highly iconic words), diminutives, and reduplication. These lexical characteristics may help infants discover the referential nature of words, identify word referents, and segment fluent speech into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Infants