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Perkins, Laurel; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Cognitive Science, 2022
Learning in any domain depends on how the data for learning are represented. In the domain of language acquisition, children's representations of the speech they hear determine what generalizations they can draw about their target grammar. But these input representations change over development as a function of children's developing linguistic…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
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Christodoulou, Christiana; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper explores the nature of copula omission in Cypriot Greek individuals with Down Syndrome (DS). Previous studies on DS have attributed high rates of copula omission to an overall grammatical/inflectional impairment without offering further analysis. In order to identify relevant conditioning factors, we examined copula productions and…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Greek, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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Taha, Juhayna; Stojanovik, Vesna; Pagnamenta, Emma – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the production of tense and subject-verb agreement in Palestinian Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) in comparison to their typically developing (TD) peers in terms of (a) performance accuracy and (b) error patterns. Method: Participants were 14 children with DLD aged 4;0-7;10 and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Verbs, Expressive Language, Morphology (Languages)
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Smolík, Filip; Matiasovitsová, Klára – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study examined two markers of language impairment (LI) in a single experiment, testing sentence imitation and grammatical morphology production using an imitation task with masked morphemes. One goal was to test predictions of the morphological richness account of LI in Czech. We also tested the independent contributions of language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slavic Languages, Sentences, Imitation
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Wagley, Neelima; Perrachione, Tyler K.; Ostrovskaya, Irina; Ghosh, Satrajit S.; Saxler, Patricia K.; Lymberis, John; Wexler, Kenneth; Gabrieli, John D. E.; Kovelman, Ioulia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Child language acquisition is marked by an optional infinitive period (ages 2-4 years) during which children use nonfinite (infinitival) verb forms and finite verb forms interchangeably in grammatical contexts that require finite forms. In English, children's errors include omissions of past tense /--ed/ and 3rd-person singular /--s/.…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Error Patterns, Adults, Morphology (Languages)
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Christensen, Rikke Vang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the potential of performance on a Danish sentence repetition (SR) task--including specific morphological and syntactic properties--to identify difficulties in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) relative to typically developing (TD) children. Furthermore, the potential of the task as a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Verbs, Grammar
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Kourtali, Nektaria-Efstathia; Révész, Andrea – Language Learning, 2020
This study investigated the effects of task complexity on child learners' second language (L2) gains, the relationship between aptitude and L2 development, and the extent to which task complexity influences this relationship when recasts are provided. Sixty child EFL learners were assigned to two experimental groups. During the treatment, one…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis
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Lah, Meta – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2016
The article introduces learners between two age groups: childhood and adulthood. The aim of the author is to analyse the writing skills of French primary school learners--mostly 14 years old--and to determine which descriptors could be used to assess them. The article begins with a presentation of the learners' characteristics and continues with a…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, French, Competition
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Waldmann, Christian – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
This article examines the acquisition of embedded verb placement in Swedish children, focusing on Neg-V and V-Neg order. It is proposed that a principle of economy of movement creates an overuse of V-Neg order in embedded clauses and that the low frequency of the target-consistent Neg-V order in child-directed speech obstructs children from…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Swedish, Verbs, Phrase Structure
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Chang, Franklin – Language, 2012
Children (aged five-to-six and nine-to-ten years) and adults rated the acceptability of well-formed sentences and argument-structure overgeneralization errors involving the prepositional-object and double-object dative constructions (e.g. "Marge pulled the box to Homer/*Marge pulled Homer the box"). In support of the entrenchment hypothesis, a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Sentence Structure, Semantics, Verbs
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Mackie, Clare J.; Dockrell, Julie; Lindsay, Geoff – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In this study, we performed a fine grained analysis of writing by children with a specific language impairment (SLI) and examined the contribution of oral language, phonological short-term memory (STM), nonverbal ability, and word reading to three writing constructs (productivity, complexity and accuracy). Forty-six children with SLI were compared…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Oral Language
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Lukacs, Agnes; Leonard, Laurence B.; Kas, Bence; Pleh, Csaba – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: Hungarian is a null-subject language with both agglutinating and fusional elements in its verb inflection system, and agreement between the verb and object as well as between the verb and subject. These characteristics make this language a good test case for alternative accounts of the grammatical deficits of children with language…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Children, Language Impairments, Morphemes
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Vukovic, Mile; Stojanovik, Vesna – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The aim of the article is to provide preliminary data on the use of auxiliaries and clitics in Serbian-speaking children with developmental language impairment. Two groups of children (a group of 30 children with developmental language impairment and a group of 30 typically developing children) aged between 48 and 83 months and matched on IQ took…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, Delayed Speech, Language Processing
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Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F.; Young, Chris R. – Cognition, 2008
Participants (aged 5-6 yrs, 9-10 yrs and adults) rated (using a five-point scale) grammatical (intransitive) and overgeneralized (transitive causative) uses of a high frequency, low frequency and novel intransitive verb from each of three semantic classes [Pinker, S. (1989a). "Learnability and cognition: the acquisition of argument structure."…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Semiotics
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Kidd, Evan; Lum, Jarrad A. G. – Developmental Science, 2008
Hartshorne and Ullman (2006 ) presented naturalistic language data from 25 children (15 boys, 10 girls) and showed that girls produced more past tense overregularization errors than did boys. In particular, girls were more likely to overregularize irregular verbs whose stems share phonological similarities with regular verbs. It was argued that…
Descriptors: Females, Verbs, Gender Differences, Males
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