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Scherger, Anna-Lena; Kizilirmak, Jasmin M.; Folta-Schoofs, Kristian – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension). We examined German five-to seven-year-old typically developing children and an adult control group.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Ibrahim A. Asadi; Abeer Asli-Badarneh; Duaa Abu Elhija; Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines whether differences in acquisition exist among the inflectional constructions of number, gender, possessive pronouns, and tense. Moreover, the study investigates whether these inflectional patterns develop with age. Method: The participants were 1,020 Arabic-speaking kindergartners from K2 and K3. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Kindergarten
Shuyan Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scalar implicatures (SIs) lie at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, and therefore have evoked great interest for language acquisition research. Many acquisition studies show that young children know the literal semantics of scalar items (like "some", "might", "start" and "or") but have…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Child Language
John Grinstead; Ramón Padilla-Reyes; Melissa Nieves-Rivera; Morgan Oates – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
We test children's distributive and collective sentence interpretations and the variables that predict them. In our first experiment, we establish that adult English collective sentences with "the" or "some" in the subject are categorically collective in their interpretations. We further demonstrate that children's collective…
Descriptors: Child Language, Goodness of Fit, Sentences, Prediction
Richtsmeier, Peter T.; Good, Amanda K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Frequent sounds and frequent words are both acquired at an earlier age and are produced by children more accurately. Recent research suggests that frequency is not always a facilitative concept, however. Interactions between input frequency in perception and practice frequency in production may limit or inhibit growth. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Child Language, Oral Language, Young Children, Vocabulary Development
Haendler, Yair; Adani, Flavia – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Previous studies have found that Hebrew-speaking children accurately comprehend object relatives (OR) with an embedded non-referential arbitrary subject pronoun (ASP). The facilitation of ORs with embedded pronouns is expected both from a discourse-pragmatics perspective and within a syntax-based locality approach. However, the specific effect of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Child Language, Form Classes (Languages), Comprehension
White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
Shi, Jiawei; Zhou, Peng – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
The present studies sought to investigate the mapping relations between language and cognition by focusing on how Mandarin-speaking children acquire the mapping between their conceptual knowledge of possession and their linguistic expressions of possession. Two experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 used a comprehension task to explore whether…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Nouns, Task Analysis
Bunce, John P.; Scott, Rose M. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
While recent studies suggest children can use cross-situational information to learn words, these studies involved minimal referential ambiguity, and the cross-situational evidence overwhelmingly favored a single referent for each word. Here we asked whether 2-5-year-olds could identify a noun's referent when the scene and cross-situational…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Toddlers, Young Children, Evidence
Köder, Franziska; Maier, Emar – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigates children's acquisition of the distinction between direct speech (Elephant said, "I get the football") and indirect speech ("Elephant said that he gets the football"), by measuring children's interpretation of first, second, and third person pronouns. Based on evidence from various linguistic sources, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Indo European Languages, Young Children
Rissman, Lilia; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Across a diverse range of languages, children proceed through similar stages in their production of causal language: their initial verbs lack internal causal structure, followed by a period during which they produce causative overgeneralizations, indicating knowledge of a productive causative rule. We asked in this study whether a child not…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Child Language
Brandt, Silke; Nitschke, Sanjo; Kidd, Evan – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Structural priming is a useful laboratory-based technique for investigating how children respond to temporary changes in the distribution of structures in their input. In the current study we investigated whether increasing the number of object relative clauses (RCs) in German-speaking children's input changes their processing preferences for…
Descriptors: Priming, German, Phrase Structure, Linguistic Input
Lin, Candise Y.; Wang, Min; Shu, Hua – Journal of Child Language, 2013
The current study examined five- and seven-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's processing of lexical tones in relation to speech segments by varying onset and rime in an oddity task (onset±rime±). Results showed that children experienced more difficulty in lexical tone oddity judgment when rimes differed across monosyllables (e.g.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese, Difficulty Level
Vernice, Mirta; Guasti, Maria Teresa – First Language, 2014
It remains controversial whether children are able to process and integrate specific linguistic cues in their mental model to the same extent as adults. In the present study, a sentence continuation task was employed to determine how Italian speakers (4-, 5-, 6-year-olds and adults) interpret prosodic cues to decide which referent is more salient…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Notley, Anna; Zhou, Peng; Jensen, Britta; Crain, Stephen – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study investigates three- to five-year-old children's interpretation of disjunction in sentences like "The dog reached the finish line before the turtle or the bunny". English disjunction has a conjunctive interpretation in such sentences ("The dog reached the finish line before the turtle and before the bunny"). This interpretation conforms…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Value Judgment, Mandarin Chinese