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Meziane, Rabia Sabah; MacLeod, Andrea A. N. – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study aims to describe the relationships between child-internal and child-external factors and the consonant accuracy of bilingual children. More specifically, the study looks at internal factors: expressive and receptive vocabulary, and external factors: language exposure and language status, of a group of 4-year-old bilingual Arabic-French…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Arabic, French, Preschool Children
Ramon-Casas, Marta; Cortes, Susana; Benet, Ariadna; Lleo, Conxita; Bosch, Laura – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigates perception and production of the Catalan mid-vowel /e/-/[epsilon]/ contrast by two groups of 4.5-year-old Catalan-Spanish bilingual children, differing in language dominance. Perception was assessed with an XAB discrimination task involving familiar words and non-words. Production accuracy was measured using a familiar-word…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Spanish, Language Dominance
Marchak, Kristan A.; Hall, D. Geoffrey – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This research addressed the question of whether children understand proper names differently from descriptions. We examined how children extend these two types of expressions from an initial object (a truck) owned by the experimenter to two identical objects created by transforming the initial object, both owned by the experimenter. Adults and…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Naming, Language Acquisition
Campos, Ana Duarte; Oliveira, Helena Mendes; Soares, Ana Paula – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Reading is one of the most important milestones a child achieves throughout development. Above the letter level, the syllable has been shown to play a relevant role at early stages of visual word recognition in adult skilled readers. However, studies aiming to examine when, during reading acquisition, the syllable emerges as a functional…
Descriptors: Syllables, Portuguese, Language Acquisition, Task Analysis
Romøren, Anna Sara H.; Chen, Aoju – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigated how Central Swedish-speaking four to eleven-year-old children acquire the prosodic marking of narrow focus, compared to adult controls. Three measurements were analysed: placement of the prominence-marking high tone (prominence H), pitch range effects of the prominence H, and word duration. Subject-verb-object sentences were…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Swedish, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Snape, Simon; Krott, Andrea – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Young children struggle more with mapping novel words onto relational referents (e.g., verbs) compared to non-relational referents (e.g., nouns). We present further evidence for this notion by investigating children's extensions of noun-noun compounds, which map onto combinations of non-relational referents, i.e., objects (e.g., "baby"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Cognitive Mapping, Child Language
Helen Engemann – Journal of Child Language, 2024
Previous research on the L1 acquisition of motion event expression suggests that mapping multiple semantic components onto syntactic units is associated with greater difficulties in verb-framed than in satellite-framed languages, because the former require more complex structures (using subordination). This study investigated the impact of this…
Descriptors: French, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, English
Polišenská, Kamila; Chiat, Shula; Szewczyk, Jakub; Twomey, Katherine E. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Theories of language processing differ with respect to the role of abstract syntax and semantics vs surface-level lexical co-occurrence (n-gram) frequency. The contribution of each of these factors has been demonstrated in previous studies of children and adults, but none have investigated them jointly. This study evaluated the role of all three…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
Requena, Pablo E. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Previous comprehension studies using Picture Matching Tasks (PMT) have shown that, by the age of four, Spanish-speaking children have acquired the semantics of "estar" being able to calculate the implicature that a property introduced with "estar" does not hold independent of time as well as displaying some ability to integrate…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pictorial Stimuli, Tests, Task Analysis
Ronfard, Samuel; Wei, Ran; Rowe, Meredith L. – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The looking-while-listening (LWL) paradigm is frequently used to measure toddlers' lexical processing efficiency (LPE). Children's LPE is associated with vocabulary size, yet other linguistic, cognitive, or social skills contributing to LPE are not well understood. It also remains unclear whether LPE measures from two types of LWL trials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Toddlers, Interpersonal Competence
Zhu, Jingtao; Franck, Julie; Rizzi, Luigi; Gavarro, Anna – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We test the comprehension of transitive sentences in very young learners of Mandarin Chinese using a combination of the weird word order paradigm with the use of pseudo-verbs and the preferential looking paradigm, replicating the experiment of Franck et al. (2013) on French. Seventeen typically-developing Mandarin infants (mean age: 17.4 months)…
Descriptors: Infants, Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, Verbs
Mornati, Giulia; Riva, Valentina; Vismara, Elena; Molteni, Massimo; Cantiani, Chiara – Journal of Child Language, 2022
We investigated online early comprehension in Italian children aged 12 and 20 months, focusing on the role of morphosyntactic features (i.e., gender) carried by determiners in facilitating comprehension and anticipating upcoming words. A naturalistic eye-tracking procedure was employed, recording looking behaviours during a classical…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Morphology (Languages), Italian
Charest, Monique; Baird, Tieghan – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Naming semantically related images results in progressively slower responses as more images are named. There is considerable documentation in adults of this phenomenon, known as cumulative semantic interference. Few studies have focused on this phenomenon in children. The present research investigated cumulative semantic interference effects in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Naming, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
Foppolo, Francesca; Mazzaggio, Greta; Panzeri, Francesca; Surian, Luca – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Several studies investigated preschoolers' ability to compute scalar and ad-hoc implicatures, but only one compared children's performance with both kinds of implicature with the same task, a picture selection task. In Experiment 1 (N = 58, age: 4;2-6;0), we first show that the truth value judgment task, traditionally employed to investigate…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pragmatics, Inferences, Task Analysis
Yuile, Amanda Rose; Sabbagh, Mark A. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
We investigated whether children's inhibitory control (IC) is associated with their ability to produce irregular past tense verb forms as well as learn from corrective feedback following overregularization errors. Forty-eight 3;6 to 4;5 year old children were tested on the irregular past tense and provided with adult corrective input via models of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)