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Direct linkHemsley, Gayle; Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study investigated cross-linguistic influence in acquisition of a second lexicon, evaluating Samoan-English sequentially bilingual children (initial mean age 4 ; 9) during their first 18 months of school. Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary tasks evaluated acquisition of four word types: cognates, matched nouns, phrasal nouns and holonyms.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Samuelson, Larissa K.; Horst, Jessica S.; Schutte, Anne R.; Dobbertin, Brandi N. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
Young children learning English are biased to attend to the shape of solid rigid objects when learning novel names. This study seeks further understanding of the processes that support this behavior by examining a previous finding that three-year-old children are also biased to generalize novel names for objects made from deformable materials by…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children, Child Language, Vocabulary
Ferenz, Krag S.; Prasada, Sandeep – Journal of Child Language, 2002
Two experiments investigated the factors that govern children's use of singular and plural forms of count nouns. Experiment 1 used an elicited production task to investigate whether children use referential and/or syntactic information to determine the form of the count nouns when the two sources of information conflict (e.g. "each x, one of the…
Descriptors: Experiments, Nouns, Young Children, Child Language
