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Katrina Nicholas; Tobie Grierson; Priscilla Helen; Chelsea Miller; Amanda Owen Van Horne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine if 2.5-year-olds with language delay would learn verbs ("spill") when presented with varying syntactic structure ("The woman is spilling the milk"/"The milk is spilling"; "milk" = patient or theme) in a therapeutic context. Children with language delay have…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments
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Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Language Learning, 2024
Verb-marking errors such as "she play football" and "daddy singing" are a hallmark feature of English-speaking children's speech. We investigated the proposal that these errors are input-driven errors of commission arising from the high relative frequency of subject + unmarked verb sequences in well-formed child-directed…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Verbs, Predictor Variables, Incidence
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Mumford, Katherine H.; Aussems, Suzanne; Kita, Sotaro – Developmental Science, 2023
Previous research has shown a strong positive association between right-handed gesturing and vocabulary development. However, the causal nature of this relationship remains unclear. In the current study, we tested whether gesturing with the right hand enhances linguistic processing in the left hemisphere, which is contralateral to the right hand.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Handedness, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
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Lila San Roque; Elisabeth Norcliffe; Asifa Majid – Cognitive Science, 2024
Words that describe sensory perception give insight into how language mediates human experience, and the acquisition of these words is one way to examine how we learn to categorize and communicate sensation. We examine the differential predictions of the typological prevalence hypothesis and embodiment hypothesis regarding the acquisition of…
Descriptors: English, Verbs, Sensory Experience, Perception
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LaTourrette, Alexander; Waxman, Sandra; Wakschlag, Lauren S.; Norton, Elizabeth S.; Weisleder, Adriana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: This study examines online speech processing in typically developing and late-talking 2-year-old children, comparing both groups' word recognition, word prediction, and word learning. Method: English-acquiring U.S. children, from the "When to Worry" study of language and social--emotional development, were identified as typical…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Word Recognition
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Pedro Mateo Pedro – First Language, 2024
This article evaluates the acquisition of directionals in Q'anjob'al, a Western Mayan language of Guatemala. The data come from a longitudinal study of two Q'anjob'al monolingual children of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala: Xhuw (1;9-2;5) and Xhim (2;3-3;5). The results show how these children acquire the morphological distribution of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Native Language, Language Acquisition, Verbs
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Huei-Mei Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao; Chun-Yi Lin; Gwyneth Rost; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The current investigation evaluated the extent to which early noun, verb, and adjective lexicon sizes predicted later grammatical outcomes in Mandarin-speaking children with and without late language emergence (LLE) using a parent report. Method: In Study 1, the parents of 24 Mandarin-speaking children with typical language filled out the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
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Mitsugi, Sanako; Fukuda, Haruka – First Language, 2022
This study examined Japanese-speaking mothers' passives in the child-directed speech from the CHILDES database. We selected five parent-child corpora and analyzed the overall distribution of the mothers' passives and further investigated the contribution of the construction and the passivized verbs to sentence meaning. The findings were as…
Descriptors: Japanese, Mothers, Language Usage, Speech Communication
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Havron, Naomi; Babineau, Mireille; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Infants are able to use the contexts in which familiar words appear to guide their inferences about the syntactic category of novel words (e.g. 'This is a' + 'dax' -> dax = object). The current study examined whether 18-month-old infants can rapidly adapt these expectations by tracking the distribution of syntactic structures in their input. In…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Familiarity, Inferences
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Boeg Thomsen, Ditte; Theakston, Anna; Kandemirci, Birsu; Brandt, Silke – Developmental Psychology, 2021
To examine whether children's acquisition of perspective-marking language supports development in their ability to reason about mental states, we conducted a longitudinal study testing whether proficiency with complement clauses around age 3 explained variance in false-belief reasoning 6 months later. Forty-five English-speaking 2- and 3-year-olds…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Grammar, Logical Thinking, Beliefs
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Clifton Pye – First Language, 2024
The Mayan language Mam uses complex predicates to express events. Complex predicates map multiple semantic elements onto a single word, and consequently have a blend of lexical and phrasal features. The chameleon-like nature of complex predicates provides a window on children's ability to express phrasal combinations at the one-word stage of…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, American Indian Languages, Vowels
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Haebig, Eileen; Jiménez, Eva; Cox, Christopher R.; Hills, Thomas T. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Children with autism spectrum disorder often have significant language delays. But do they learn language differently than neurotypical toddlers? We compared the lexical skills of 64 preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder to 461 vocabulary-size-matched typically developing toddlers. We also examined social features…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
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Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the influence of semantic maturation on early lexical development by examining the impact of contextual diversity--known to influence semantic development--on word promotion from receptive to productive vocabularies (i.e., comprehension-expression gap). Study 1 compares the vocabularies of 3685 American-English-speaking…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Delayed Speech
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Ying, Yuanfan; Yang, Xiaolu; Shi, Rushen – First Language, 2022
Previous studies show that infants store functional morphemes for inferring syntactic categories of adjacent words, and they generally perform better with nouns than with verbs. In this study, we tested whether toddlers can exploit phrasal groupings for syntactic categorization in the face of noisy co-occurrence patterns. Using a visual fixation…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Inferences
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Lustigman, Lyle; Berman, Ruth A. – Language Learning and Development, 2021
The study examines phases in developing specification of grammatical marking of emergent clause-combining (CC) as indicative of children's growing ability to integrate two or more independent predications. To this end, both intra- and inter-clausal analyses were applied to all CC utterances produced by three Hebrew-acquiring children aged 2;0-3;0,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Semitic Languages, Language Acquisition
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