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Seamus Donnelly; Caroline Rowland; Franklin Chang; Evan Kidd – Cognitive Science, 2024
Prediction-based accounts of language acquisition have the potential to explain several different effects in child language acquisition and adult language processing. However, evidence regarding the developmental predictions of such accounts is mixed. Here, we consider several predictions of these accounts in two large-scale developmental studies…
Descriptors: Prediction, Error Patterns, Syntax, Priming
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Sabrina R. Sieg; Leah Fabiano; Jessica Barlow – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to (a) provide evidence for a theoretical model of between-language interaction in bilingual phonological production through the examination of substitution error patterns and to (b) provide developmental data on bilingual children with and without speech sound impairments for use in clinical assessment and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonology, Language Acquisition, Error Patterns
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Cheung, Pierina; Toomey, Mary; Jiang, Yahao Harry; Stoop, Tawni B.; Shusterman, Anna – Developmental Science, 2022
Studies on children's understanding of counting examine when and how children acquire the cardinal principle: the idea that the last word in a counted set reflects the cardinal value of the set. Using Wynn's (1990) Give-N Task, researchers classify children who can count to generate large sets as having acquired the cardinal principle…
Descriptors: Computation, Performance, Number Concepts, Numeracy
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Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Developmental Science, 2024
There is substantial evidence that children's apparent omission of grammatical morphemes in utterances such as "She play tennis" and "Mummy eating" is in fact errors of commission in which contextually licensed unmarked forms encountered in the input are reproduced in a context-blind fashion. So how do children stop making such…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Preschool Children, Grammar
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Perkins, Laurel; Feldman, Naomi H.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Cognitive Science, 2022
Learning in any domain depends on how the data for learning are represented. In the domain of language acquisition, children's representations of the speech they hear determine what generalizations they can draw about their target grammar. But these input representations change over development as a function of children's developing linguistic…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
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Luchkina, Elena; Morgan, James L.; Williams, Deijah J.; Sobel, David M. – Child Development, 2020
This study examined how inferences about epistemic competence and generalized labeling errors influence children's selective word learning. Three- to 4-year-olds (N = 128) learned words from informants who asked questions about objects, mentioning either correct or incorrect labels. Such questions do not convey stark differences in informants'…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Error Patterns
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Buil-Legaz, Lucía; Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Santamarina-Rabanal, Liliana; Martínez-García, Cristina; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier; Cuetos, Fernando – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Recent research has stated that early oral language acquisition difficulties are related to reading and writing difficulties. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience difficulties with several dimensions of language. In this study we focus on the specific difficulties of children with DLD in spelling. We examine the impact of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Reading Difficulties
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Kemp, Lisa S.; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 2021
Characteristics of vocabulary lists as well as study and test translation direction may affect the ease of learning second language (L2) vocabulary. We examined immediate and delayed test performance of first language (L1) English speakers learning a fixed set of L2 vocabulary placed on lists formed by crossing semantic relatedness (unrelated vs.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Brian Strong; Paul Leeming – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in how to maximize learners' retention of multiword expressions. One technique that has been shown to be highly effective is the use of exercises such as those found in mainstream English as a second language textbooks. In the present study, we investigated how the execution of a gap-fill…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Phrase Structure, Verbs
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Elin Thordardottir; Ludivine Plez – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Background: Bilingual assessment is particularly difficult in the very first period of children's second language (L2) exposure. This exploratory, longitudinal study examined L2 learning after 1 and 2 years of L2 exposure by young immigrants and how it is affected by their age at first exposure to the L2 (AoE). Method: Participants were 18…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Preschool Children, Adolescents
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Chen, Hsueh Chu; Han, Qian Wen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
According to the speech learning model [Flege, J. E. (1995). Second language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. In W. Strange (Ed.), "Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research" (pp. 233-277). York Press], learners whose first language (L1) is a tonal language (e.g. Cantonese) can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Sino Tibetan Languages, Mandarin Chinese
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Kueser, Justin B.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Studies have shown that children with typical development (TD) respond to frequency and predictability when repeating nonidiomatic multiword sequences (e.g., "go wash your hands"). We extended these findings by explicitly examining the interaction between frequency and predictability in a repetition task for children with…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Incidence
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Cherepovskaia, Natalia; Slioussar, Natalia; Denissenko Denissenko, Anna – Second Language Research, 2022
Using written texts elicited from students with different proficiency levels, we studied the acquisition of nominal cases in Russian as a second language. We established the order in which cases were acquired (nominative, locative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative), as well as certain characteristics of their acquisition…
Descriptors: Russian, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Daffern, Tessa; Mackenzie, Noella Maree – Literacy, 2020
Spelling is a key transcription skill for writing. While little is understood about the particular challenges some students experience when learning to spell, explicit instruction is known to improve spelling performance. The study reported in this article draws on eight case studies from a larger Australian mixed-methods study examining spelling…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns
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McDonald, Margarethe; Kwon, Taeahn; Kim, Hyunji; Lee, Youngki; Ko, Eon-Suk – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The algorithm of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system for calculating language environment measures was trained on American English; thus, its validity with other languages cannot be assumed. This article evaluates the accuracy of the LENA system applied to Korean. Method: We sampled sixty 5-min recording clips involving 38 key…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Korean, Audio Equipment, Accuracy
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