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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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Ates, N. Tayyibe; Ari, Gökhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
The purpose of this work is to determine how widely and in which semantic and morphologic categories, word associations are used by children. There is no study about word associations children use in the acquisition of Turkish as their mother tongue. Participants of the current research consisted of a total of 90 kids between 4.0 and 6.0 years of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Preschool Children, Nouns
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Blything, Ryan P.; Ambridge, Ben; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Cognitive Science, 2018
This study adjudicates between two opposing accounts of morphological productivity, using English past-tense as its test case. The single-route model (e.g., Bybee & Moder, 1983) posits that both regular and irregular past-tense forms are generated by analogy across stored exemplars in associative memory. In contrast, the dual-route model…
Descriptors: English, Grammar, Morphemes, Correlation
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Childers, Jane B.; Parrish, Rebecca; Olson, Christina V.; Burch, Clare; Fung, Gavin; McIntyre, Kevin P. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2016
An important problem verb learners must solve is how to extend verbs. Children could use cross-situational information to guide their extensions; however, comparing events is difficult. In 2 studies, researchers tested whether children benefit from initially seeing a pair of similar events ("progressive alignment") while learning new…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Verbs
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Cordier, Francoise; Croizet, Jean-Claude; Rigalleau, Francois – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
We analyzed the differential processing of nouns and verbs in a lexical decision task. Moderate and high-frequency nouns and verbs were compared. The characteristics of our material were specified at the formal level (number of letters and syllables, number of homographs, orthographic neighbors, frequency and age of acquisition), and at the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Comparative Analysis
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study investigates associative learning explanations of the limited attainment of adult compared to child language acquisition in terms of learned attention to cues. It replicates and extends Ellis and Sagarra (2010) in demonstrating short- and long-term learned attention in the acquisition of temporal reference in Latin. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Child Language
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Sugaya, Natsue; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
It has been observed that there is a strong association between the inherent (lexical) aspect of verbs and the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology (the aspect hypothesis; Andersen & Shirai, 1994). To investigate why such an association is observed, this study examined the influence of inherent aspect and learners' first language (L1) on the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers