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The Development of Aspectual Marking in Child Mandarin Chinese
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Chen, Jidong; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Cross-linguistic research on the development of tense-aspect marking has revealed a strong effect of lexical aspect. But the degree of this effect varies across languages. Explanation for this universal tendency and language-specific variation is still an open issue. This study investigates the early emergence and subsequent development of four…
Descriptors: Language Research, Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes
Social and Linguistic Input in Low-Income African American Mother-Child Dyads from 1 Month through 2 Years: Relations to Vocabulary Development
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Shimpi, Priya M.; Fedewa, Alicia; Hans, Sydney – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
The relation of social and linguistic input measures to early vocabulary development was examined in 30 low-income African American mother-infant pairs. Observations were conducted when the child was 0 years, 1 month (0;1), 0;4, 0;8, 1;0, 1;6, and 2;0. Maternal input was coded for word types and tokens, contingent responsiveness, and…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language
Economy in the Acquisition of English Universal Quantifier Sentences: The Interpretations of Deaf and Hearing Students and Second language Learners at the College Level
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Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
English sentences containing the universal quantifiers "each", "every", and "all" are highly complex structures in view of the subtleties of their scope properties and resulting ambiguities. This study explored the acquisition of universal quantifier sentences as reflected in the performance of three diverse college-level student groups on a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Deafness
Talking about Writing: What We Can Learn from Conversations between Parents and Their Young Children
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Robins, Sarah; Treiman, Rebecca – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
In six analyses using the Child Language Data Exchange System known as CHILDES, we explored whether and how parents and their 1.5- to 5-year-old children talk about writing. Parent speech might include information about the similarity between print and speech and about the difference between writing and drawing. Parents could convey similarity…
Descriptors: Semantics, Written Language, Freehand Drawing, Linguistic Input
Parental Language Input Patterns and Children's Bilingual Use
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De Houwer, Annick – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
This article reports on a study that addresses the following question: why do some children exposed to two languages from early on fail to speak those two languages? Questionnaire data were collected in 1,899 families in which at least one of the parents spoke a language other than the majority language. Each questionnaire asked about the home…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Bilingualism
The Relation of Input Factors to Lexical Learning by Bilingual Infants.
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Pearson, Barbara Z.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examined the strength of the association between language exposure estimates and vocabulary learning for simultaneous bilingual infants with differing patterns of exposure to the languages being learned. Findings revealed that the correlation was strong, even for children whose language environments changed by more than 20% between observations.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingualism, Child Language, Correlation