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Kaveri K. Sheth; Naja Ferjan Ramírez – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Research on "parentese," the acoustically exaggerated, slower, and higher-pitched speech directed toward infants, has mostly focused on maternal contributions, although it has long been known that fathers also produce parentese. Given recent societal changes in family dynamics, it is necessary to revise these mother-centered models of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Syntax
Ozturk, Sumeyra; Pinar, Ebru; Ketrez, F. Nihan; Özcaliskan, Seyda – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Children's early vocabulary shows sex differences -- with boys having smaller vocabularies than age-comparable girls -- a pattern that becomes evident in both singletons and twins. Twins also use fewer words than their singleton peers. However, we know relatively less about sex differences in early gesturing in singletons or twins, and also how…
Descriptors: Child Language, Gender Differences, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
Snyder, William – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Three case-studies, using longitudinal records of children's spontaneous speech, illustrate what happens when a child's syntax changes. The first, examining acquisition of English verb-particle constructions, shows a near-total absence of commission errors. The second, examining acquisition of prepositional questions in English or Spanish, shows…
Descriptors: Child Language, Syntax, Language Acquisition, English
Casillas, Marisa; Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The rate at which young children are directly spoken to varies due to many factors, including (a) caregiver ideas about children as conversational partners and (b) the organization of everyday life. Prior work suggests cross-cultural variation in rates of child-directed speech is due to the former factor, but has been fraught with confounds in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication
Smith, Jodie; Sulek, Rhylee; Van Der Wert, Kailia; Cincotta-Lee, Olivia; Green, Cherie C.; Bent, Catherine A.; Chetcuti, Lacey; Hudry, Kristelle – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Both the amount "and" responsiveness of adult language input contribute to the language development of autistic and non-autistic children. From parent-child interaction footage, we measured the amount of adult language input, overall parent responsiveness, and six discrete parent responsive behaviours ("imitations, expansions,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Imitation, Interpersonal Communication, Child Language
David Ben Shannon; Abigail Hackett – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
In this article, the authors argue for what Édouard Glissant terms the 'right to opacity' in teaching and assessing communication and language skills in early childhood education (ECE). We draw from Glissant's writing on Relation, and his interrelated concepts of 'opacity' and 'transparency', to consider two vignettes from sensory ethnographic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Communication Skills, Language Skills, Child Language
Johanne Belmon; Magali Noyer-Martin; Sandra Jhean-Larose – First Language, 2024
The relationship between emotion and language in children is an emerging field of research. To carry out this type of study, researchers need to precisely manipulate the emotional parameters of the words in their experimental material. However, the number of affective norms for words in this population is still limited. To fill this gap, the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Correlation, Emotional Response
Haiquan Huang; Hui Cheng; Lina Qian; Yixiong Chen; Peng Zhou – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
"Wh"-words have been analysed as existential quantifiers (Chierchia in Logic in grammar: polarity, free choice, and intervention. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013; Fox, in Sauerland U, Stateva P (eds) Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics (Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition). Palgrave…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Prediction
Kelsey L. West; Sarah E. Steward; Emily Roemer Britsch; Jana M. Iverson – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
New motor skills can shape how infants communicate with their caregivers. For example, learning to walk allows infants to move faster and farther than they previously could, in turn allowing them to approach their caregivers more frequently to gesture or vocalize. Does the link between walking and communication differ for infants later diagnosed…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Physical Mobility, Child Language
Katrin D. Bartl-Pokorny; Florian B. Pokorny; Dunia Garrido; Björn W. Schuller; Dajie Zhang; Peter B. Marschik – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a rare, late detected developmental disorder associated with severe deficits in the speech-language domain. Despite a few reports about atypicalities in the speech-language development of infants and toddlers with RTT, a detailed analysis of the pre-linguistic vocalisation repertoire of infants with RTT is yet missing. Based…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Infants, Speech Impairments
Jourdain, Morgane; Lahousse, Karen – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The aim of the present research is to investigate the development of left and right dislocation in child French through a corpus study of three children until age 2;7 from the corpus of Lyon (Demuth & Tremblay, 2008). We extracted a total of 704 dislocations and analysed their syntactic properties. We show that (i) right dislocations are more…
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Syntax, Verbs
Cychosz, Margaret; Munson, Benjamin; Edwards, Jan R. – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Much research in child speech development suggests that young children coarticulate more than adults. There are multiple, not mutually-exclusive, explanations for this pattern. For example, children may coarticulate more because they are limited by immature motor control. Or they may coarticulate more if they initially represent phonological…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Articulation (Speech), Speech Communication
Hellwig, Birgit – First Language, 2021
This article focuses on complex predicates in Qaqet, a Papuan (Baining) language of Papua New Guinea, spoken by 15,000 people and still being acquired monolingually in remote areas. A large part of the Qaqet verb lexicon is compositional, consisting of simple verb roots that combine with prepositions or particles/suffixes, jointly contributing to…
Descriptors: Languages, Foreign Countries, Verbs, Grammar
Cristia, Alejandrina; Gautheron, Lucas; Colleran, Heidi – Developmental Science, 2023
What are the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula island, Vanuatu, where multilingualism is the norm? Long-form audio-recordings captured spontaneous speech behavior by, and around, 38 children (5-33 months, 23 girls) from 11 villages. Automated analyses revealed most children's vocal input came from female adults and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Infant Behavior
Shi, Jinyu; Gu, Yan; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Developmental Science, 2023
Child-directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two questions: (1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word familiarity (known or unknown to the child) and accessibility of referent (visually present or absent from the immediate environment); (2) whether such modulations affect…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals