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Julian M. Pine; Daniel Freudenthal; Fernand Gobet – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Verb-marking errors are a characteristic feature of the speech of typically-developing (TD) children and are particularly prevalent in the speech of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). However, both the pattern of verb-marking error in TD children and the pattern of verb-marking deficit in DLD vary across languages and interact…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Verbs, Error Patterns
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Tomoko Tatsumi; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study tested the claim of input-based accounts of language acquisition that children's inflectional errors reflect competition between different forms of the same verb in memory. In order to distinguish this claim from the claim that inflectional errors reflect the use of a morphosyntactic default, we focused on the Japanese verb system,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Error Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
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Weil, Lisa Wisman; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study employed a paired priming paradigm to ask whether input features influence a child's propensity to use non-nominative versus nominative case in subject position, and to use non-nominative forms even when verbs are marked for agreement. Thirty English-speaking children (ages 2;6 to 3;7) heard sentences with pronouns that had…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Usage, Verbs, Young Children
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Colombo, Lucia; Navarrete, Eduardo; Arfé, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Noun and verb acquisition was investigated in three- and five-year-old Italian children by means of picture naming of objects and actions, selected from Druks and Masterson (2000). The aim was to examine the previously reported advantage of nouns compared to verbs. Older children were faster than younger children, and naming latencies were faster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Nouns
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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
Young English-speaking children often produce utterances with missing 3sg -s (e.g., *He play). Since the mid 1990s, such errors have tended to be treated as Optional Infinitive (OI) errors, in which the verb is a non-finite form (e.g., Wexler, 1998; Legate & Yang, 2007). The present article reports the results of a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Young Children, English, Speech, Error Patterns
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Family, Neiloufar; Allen, Shanley E. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
The acquisition of systematic patterns and exceptions in different languages can be readily examined using the causative construction. Persian allows four types of causative structures, including one productive multiword structure (i.e. the light verb construction). In this study, we examine the development of all four structures in Persian child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages)
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Szagun, Gisela – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The acquisition of German participle inflection was investigated using spontaneous speech samples from six children between 1 ; 4 and 3 ; 8 and ten children between 1 ; 4 and 2 ; 10 recorded longitudinally at regular intervals. Child-directed speech was also analyzed. In adult and child speech weak participles were significantly more frequent than…
Descriptors: Vowels, Verbs, German, Language Acquisition
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Aljenaie, Khawla – Journal of Child Language, 2010
This paper investigates the distribution of imperfective and perfective verb inflections in Kuwaiti Arabic. Spontaneous speech of three children (1 ; 8-3; 1) was analyzed for accuracy and error types. The results showed that the verbal inflections appeared correct almost all the time (89-97% of the time). Agreement errors appeared 3-11% of the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech, Verbs, Grammar
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Freudenthal, Daniel: Pine, Julian; Gobet, Fernando – Journal of Child Language, 2010
In this study, we use corpus analysis and computational modelling techniques to compare two recent accounts of the OI stage: Legate & Yang's (2007) Variational Learning Model and Freudenthal, Pine & Gobet's (2006) Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children. We first assess the extent to which each of these accounts can explain the level of OI errors…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Error Analysis (Language), Child Language
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Kirjavainen, Minna; Theakston, Anna; Lieven, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2009
English-speaking children make pronoun case errors producing utterances where accusative pronouns are used in nominative contexts ("me do it"). We investigate whether complex utterances in the input ("Let me do it") might explain the origin of these errors. Longitudinal naturalistic data from seventeen English-speaking two- to four-year-olds was…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Verbs, Caregivers
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Masterson, Jackie; Druks, Judit; Gallienne, Donna – Journal of Child Language, 2008
The objectives were to explore the often reported noun advantage in children's language acquisition using a picture naming paradigm and to explore the variables that affect picture naming performance. Participants in Experiment 1 were aged three and five years, and in Experiment 2, five years. The stimuli were action and object pictures. In…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Gropen, Jess; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Two experiments were performed on the ability of children and adults to understand and produce locative verbs. Results confirm that children tend to make syntactic errors with sentences containing "fill" and "empty," encoding the content argument as direct object. (33 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Error Patterns, Language Acquisition
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Bavin, Edith L.; Shopen, Timothy A. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describes a part of a study on children's acquisition of Warlpiri, an aboriginal language spoken in central Australia, which aimed to find out at what age the children respond consistently to particular word orders and case frames for simple transitive sentences. Makes comparisons with the acquisition of Turkish transitive clauses. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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Cox, Maureen V. – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Investigation of four- through six-year-olds' abilities to correct over-regularized plural nouns and verbs in the past tense showed that, generally, older children performed better than the younger children, and plural nouns were corrected significantly more than past-tense verb forms. Younger children were better at correcting the nouns than the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Error Patterns, Grammatical Acceptability
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Santelmann, Lynn; Berk, Stephanie; Austin, Jennifer; Somashekar, Shamitha; Lust, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This paper examines two- to five-year-old children's knowledge of inversion in English yes/no questions through a new experimental study. It challenges the view that the syntax for inversion develops slowly in child English and tests the hypothesis that grammatical competence for inversion is present from the earliest testable ages of the child's…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Language Acquisition, Child Language, English
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