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McClay, Elise K.; Cebioglu, Senay; Broesch, Tanya; Yeung, H. Henny – Developmental Science, 2022
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is phonetically distinct from adult-directed speech (ADS): It is typically considered to have special prosody--like higher pitch and slower speaking rates--as well as unique speech sound properties, for example, more breathy, hyperarticulated, and/or variable consonant and vowel articulation. These phonetic features…
Descriptors: Child Language, Phonetics, Mothers, Foreign Countries
Jiang, Hang; Frank, Michael C.; Kulkarni, Vivek; Fourtassi, Abdellah – Cognitive Science, 2022
The linguistic input children receive across early childhood plays a crucial role in shaping their knowledge about the world. To study this input, researchers have begun applying distributional semantic models to large corpora of child-directed speech, extracting various patterns of word use/co-occurrence. Previous work using these models has not…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Linguistic Input, Semantics
Tamarit-Galdon, Marc – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Child Language Brokering is a very common phenomenon for Latinx/a/o children of immigrants, who usually begin language serving as translators and interpreters at a young age and carry these roles into adulthood. Yet, despite the prevalence of Child Language Brokering, the findings of existing research still do not agree on the impact of this…
Descriptors: Child Language, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Quynh Dam – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Bilingualism continues to increase with more than 350 different languages spoken in the United States, and more than 21% of people over the age of five (approximately 66 million people) speaking a language other than English at home (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). Many bilingual children in the US speak a minority first language (L1) and English as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, English (Second Language), Child Language
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
Henrikson, Brenna; Seidl, Amanda; Soderstrom, Melanie – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We examined full-term and preterm infants' perception of frequent and infrequent phonotactic pairings involving sibilants and liquids. Infants were tested on their preference for syllables with onsets involving /s/ or /?/ followed by /l/ or /r/ using the Headturn Preference Procedure. Full-term infants preferred the frequent to the infrequent…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Child Language, Speech Communication, Syllables
Cassani, Giovanni; Chuang, Yu-Ying; Baayen, R. Harald – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Using computational simulations, this work demonstrates that it is possible to learn a systematic relation between words' sound and their meanings. The sound-meaning relation was learned from a corpus of phonologically transcribed child-directed speech by using the linear discriminative learning (LDL) framework (Baayen, Chuang, Shafaei-Bajestan,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Vocabulary, Classification
Kushner, Elizabeth H.; Britsch, Emily Roemer; Iverson, Jana M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Early in development, caregivers' object labelling contributes to children's word learning. Language development is a bi-directional process, and differences in joint engagement (JE) and language among children with developmental disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may provide caregivers varying contexts and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, At Risk Persons
Aravind, Athulya; Koring, Loes – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children's understanding of passives of certain mental state predicates appears to lag behind passives of so-called actional predicates, an asymmetry that has posed a major empirical challenge for theories of passive acquisition. This paper argues against the dominant view in the literature that treats the predicate-based asymmetry as…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Syntax
Imhof, Andrea; Liu, Sihong; Schlueter, Lisa; Phu, Tiffany; Watamura, Sarah; Fisher, Philip – Prevention Science, 2023
Young children from low-SES backgrounds are at higher risk for delayed language development, likely due to differences in their home language environment and decreased opportunities for back and forth communicative exchange. Intervention strategies that encourage reciprocal caregiver-child interactions may effectively promote young children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Expressive Language, Listening Comprehension, Video Technology
Sylvestre, Audette; Di Sante, Mélissa; Leblond, Jean – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study aimed to (a) provide speech-language pathologists and researchers with a play-based procedure to measure the expression of spoken communicative intents by children aged 3 to 4.5 years and (b) present indicators of these children's capacity to produce these intents in this context. Method: A method inspired by TRIAGE (Technique…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Oral Language, Speech Language Pathology
Choi, Ji Young; Van Pay, Craig K.; Beecher, Constance C. – Infant and Child Development, 2023
This study explored the language experiences of dual language learners (DLL; n = 19) and English monolinguals (EM; n = 13) in preschool classrooms where English is the primary language of instruction and many home languages are present. Using the Language ENvironment Analysis™ system as a primary tool, we quantitatively analysed an average of 34…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Preschool Education, Language of Instruction
Julie Dwyer; Rachel E. Schachter; Alessandra E. Ward – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Research-supported knowledge about how children develop language is considered foundational for high-quality instruction and as such, measuring and developing teachers' knowledge has been emphasized across the field of early childhood. However, there is a critical gap in understanding how this static knowledge gained through pre-service and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Virginia Valian – Language Learning and Development, 2024
The first stage of combinatorial speech is better described as variable than uniform. Talk of variants obscures two different aspects of language (knowledge and use) and two different aspects of language development -- acquisition of the grammar (competence) and deployment of the grammar in speaking and listening (performance). Null subjects and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Grammar