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Li, Fangfang; Bunta, Ferenc; Tomblin, J. Bruce – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This study investigates the production of voiceless alveolar and postalveolar fricatives and affricates by bilingual and monolingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) and their peers with normal hearing (NH). Method: Fifty-four children participated in our study, including 12 Spanish-English bilingual CI users (M…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Spanish, English
Axelrod, Ysaaca – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to study the language development of 4-year-old emergent bilinguals in a bilingual (Spanish/English) Head Start classroom with flexible language practices. Data were collected throughout the 10-month school year by visiting the classroom 2-3 times per week. Data include: field notes (observations and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
Johanson, Megan; Papafragou, Anna – Cognitive Science, 2014
Children's overextensions of spatial language are often taken to reveal spatial biases. However, it is unclear whether extension patterns should be attributed to children's overly general spatial concepts or to a narrower notion of conceptual similarity allowing metaphor-like extensions. We describe a previously unnoticed extension of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, English, Greek
Wood, Carla; Diehm, Emily A.; Callender, Maya F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: The current study was designed to (a) describe average hourly Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data for preschool-age Spanish--English bilinguals (SEBs) and typically developing monolingual peers and (b) compare LENA data with mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and total number of words (TNW) calculated on a selected sample of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English
Vasilyeva, Marina; Waterfall, Heidi – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Priming methodology was previously used to investigate children's ability to represent abstract syntactic forms. Existing evidence indicates that following exposure to a particular syntactic structure (such as the passive voice), English-speaking children increase their production of that structure with new lexical items. In the present work, we…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Sentence Structure, Speech Communication
Gerlach, Sharon Ruth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines three processes affecting consonants in child speech: harmony (long-distance assimilation) involving major place features as in "coat" [kouk]; long-distance metathesis as in "cup" [p[wedge]k]; and initial consonant deletion as in "fish" [is]. These processes are unattested in adult phonology, leading to proposals for…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Phonemes, Phonology, Language Acquisition
Lee, Sue Ann S.; Davis, Barbara; MacNeilage, Peter – Journal of Child Language, 2010
The phonetic characteristics of canonical babbling produced by Korean- and English-learning infants were compared with consonant and vowel frequencies observed in infant-directed speech produced by Korean- and English-speaking mothers. For infant output, babbling samples from six Korean-learning infants were compared with an existing English…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Vowels, Infants, Language Acquisition
Barnes, Julia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
Contexts of limited input such as trilingual families where a language is not spoken in the wider community but only by a reduced number of speakers in the home provide a unique opportunity to examine closely the relationship between a child's input and what she learns to say. Barnes reported on the relationship between maternal input and a…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Parent Background, Cultural Influences, Multilingualism
Maguire, Mandy J.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Imai, Mutsumi; Haryu, Etsuko; Vanegas, Sandra; Okada, Hiroyuki; Pulverman, Rachel; Sanchez-Davis, Brenda – Cognition, 2010
The world's languages draw on a common set of event components for their verb systems. Yet, these components are differentially distributed across languages. At what age do children begin to use language-specific patterns to narrow possible verb meanings? English-, Japanese-, and Spanish-speaking adults, toddlers, and preschoolers were shown…
Descriptors: Verbs, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Contrastive Linguistics
Choi, Youngon; Trueswell, John C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
An eye-tracking study explored Korean-speaking adults' and 4- and 5-year-olds' ability to recover from misinterpretations of temporarily ambiguous phrases during spoken language comprehension. Eye movement and action data indicated that children, but not adults, had difficulty in recovering from these misinterpretations despite strong…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Child Language, Syntax, Cues
Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies
Scott, Rose M.; Fisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009
Two-year-olds assign appropriate interpretations to verbs presented in two English transitivity alternations, the causal and unspecified-object alternations (Naigles, 1996). Here we explored how they might do so. Causal and unspecified-object verbs are syntactically similar. They can be either transitive or intransitive, but differ in the semantic…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Semantics, Verbs

Oller, D. K.; Eilers, R. E. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Considers the possibility that infants from different linguistic backgrounds babble similarly. Results of an experiment show that Spanish- and English-learning babies produce predominantly CV syllables with voiceless, unaspirated plosive consonants. Vowel production is also similar. (EKN)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Infants, Language Acquisition

Shute, Brenda; Wheldall, Kevin – Journal of Child Language, 1989
Analysis of speech samples from British female adults (N=8) revealed that the subjects increased vocal pitch when addressing young children, but not as much as previously studied North American subjects did. Pitch increases were more commonly observed in free speech than in reading-aloud conditions. (23 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English, Intonation, Language Patterns

Pfaff, Carol W. – 1971
This paper documents a coding system developed to facilitate the investigation of linguistic variation in Black English. The rationale for employment of such a system is given. The use of the coding system in a study of child Black English is described and the codes for 41 phonological and syntactic variables investigated in the study are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Codification, English