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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
Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
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Sang-Gu Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper reports on a young Korean boy's target-like and non-target-like uses of the Korean negation marker "ani" to express various types of negation in Korean, observed approximately between the ages of 2;2 and 2;5. Besides the target-like usage of "ani" as a sentential adverb for a 'no' response, he used "ani" in…
Descriptors: Korean, Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition
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Klára Matiasovitsová; Petra Cechová; Jakub Sláma; Kamila Homolková; Filip Smolík – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: We examined the properties of mean length of utterance (MLU) in Czech, a morphologically complex Slavic language. We compared the scores of MLU calculated in different units and based on different sample lengths and assessed its validity against another transcript and test-based measures. Method: One hundred nine children were recorded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Slavic Languages, Morphemes