Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 6 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 13 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 23 |
Descriptor
Grammar | 25 |
Infants | 25 |
Toddlers | 25 |
Language Acquisition | 20 |
Foreign Countries | 12 |
Syntax | 12 |
Vocabulary Development | 11 |
Correlation | 9 |
Morphology (Languages) | 8 |
Verbs | 8 |
Longitudinal Studies | 7 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica | 2 |
Yip, Virginia | 2 |
Abubakar, A. | 1 |
Alcock, K. J. | 1 |
Artis, Jonet | 1 |
Arunachalam, Sudha | 1 |
Baltazart, Véronique | 1 |
Bello, Arianna | 1 |
Bleses, Dorthe | 1 |
Cadime, Irene | 1 |
Caillies, Stéphanie | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 22 |
Reports - Research | 22 |
Books | 1 |
Collected Works - General | 1 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
Collected Works - Serials | 1 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Multilingual/Bilingual… | 1 |
Education Level
Preschool Education | 2 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
France | 2 |
Hong Kong | 2 |
Belgium | 1 |
Chile | 1 |
Finland | 1 |
Israel | 1 |
Kenya | 1 |
Norway | 1 |
Russia (Moscow) | 1 |
Slovenia | 1 |
Spain | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
MacArthur Communicative… | 5 |
MacArthur Bates Communicative… | 2 |
Autism Diagnostic Observation… | 1 |
Mullen Scales of Early… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Artis, Jonet; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The goal of this work was to examine the semantic and syntactic properties of the vocabularies of autistic and non-autistic infants and toddlers to see if children in these two groups know different kinds of words. We focused on both receptive and expressive vocabularies. For expressive vocabulary, we looked only at the "active"…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics
Krishnan, Gayathri G.; Raghunathan, Arathi; Sarma, Vaijayanthi M. – First Language, 2023
In this article, we present an analysis of the complexity of grammatical constraints and their impact on early language acquisition of inflectional morphemes in Malayalam. We use the natural speech production data of two monolingual children acquiring Malayalam between the ages 1;9-2;10 and 2;3-3;0 and three bilingual children acquiring…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
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
Rinaldi, Pasquale; Pasqulaetti, Patrizio; Stefanini, Silvia; Bello, Arianna – Journal of Child Language, 2019
One of the most popular and widely used parent report instruments for assessing early language acquisition is the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI). This study compares normative data of the Italian Words and Sentences complete form (WS-CF) and short form (WS-SF). The samples included 752 children for the WS-CF and 816…
Descriptors: Italian, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
Cadime, Irene; Moreira, Célia S.; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Silva, Carla; Ribeiro, Iolanda; Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The goals of this study were to analyze the growth and stability of vocabulary, mean length of the three longest utterances (MLLUw), and sentence complexity in European Portuguese-speaking children aged 1;4-2;6, to explore differences in growth as a function of personal and family-related variables, and to investigate the inter-relationships among…
Descriptors: Grammar, Portuguese, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
Cournane, Ailís – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
This paper revisits the longstanding observation that children produce modal verbs (e.g., must, could) with their root meanings (e.g., abilities, obligations) by age 2, typically a year or more earlier than with their epistemic meanings (e.g., inferences). Established explanations for this "Epistemic Gap" argue that epistemic language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Acquisition, Inferences, Syntax
Mitrofanova, Natalia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
The article focuses on the omission of locative prepositions in child Russian. We report on two experiments: a production task and a comprehension task. Results from the elicited production task show that the majority of 2- and a minority of 3-year-olds (i) omit locative prepositions at nonnegligible rates, and (ii) do not conform to targetlike…
Descriptors: Russian, Phrase Structure, Task Analysis, Infants
Mai, Ziyin; Yip, Virginia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Early trilingual development is an excellent testing ground for input reduction effects on acquisition outcomes. This article reports a study investigating input-outcome relations in a child Leo in Hong Kong, who was addressed to in Mandarin, Cantonese and later also in English by caretakers through 'one caretaker-one language' and 'one day-one…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Sino Tibetan Languages, Multilingualism
Su, Yi (Esther); Naigles, Letitia R.; Su, Lin-Yan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Data from children with ASD who are learning Indo-European languages indicate that (a) they vary hugely in their expressive language skills and (b) their pragmatic/socially-based language is more impaired than their structural language. We investigate whether similar patterns of language development exist for Mandarin-exposed children with ASD.…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese, Toddlers
Casla, Marta; Nieva, Silvia; Murillo, Eva; Moreno, Rebeca; Rodríguez, Jessica; Méndez-Cabezas, Celia – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2021
Spontaneous verbal repetition is part of early adult-child conversational interchanges. However, most of the studies devoted to verbal repetition analyse child-produced and adult-produced repetition independently. The aim of this study is to analyse verbal repetition sequences that are extended by children and adults participating in turns. We…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Language Acquisition, Parent Child Relationship, Infants
Ma, Weiyi; Zhou, Peng; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Lee, Joanne; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – First Language, 2019
The syntactic structure of sentences in which a new word appears may provide listeners with cues to that new word's form class. In English, for example, a noun tends to follow a determiner ("a"/"an"/"the"), while a verb precedes the morphological inflection [ing]. The presence of these markers may assist children in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Cues, Mandarin Chinese, Verbs
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška; Socan, Gregor – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The aim of this longitudinal study, carried out on a sample of Slovenian-speaking toddlers, was to analyze developmental changes and stability in early vocabulary development; to establish relations between toddler's vocabulary and grammar; and to analyze the effects of parental education and the frequency of shared reading on toddlers' vocabulary…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Grammar
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urska; Podlesek, Anja – Journal of Child Language, 2013
A large body of research shows that vocabulary does not develop independently of grammar, representing a better predictor of the grammatical complexity of toddlers' utterances than age. This study examines for the first time the characteristics of vocabulary and grammar development in Slovenian-speaking infants and toddlers using the Slovenian…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Alcock, K. J.; Rimba, K.; Holding, P.; Kitsao-Wekulo, P.; Abubakar, A.; Newton, C. R. J. C. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs, parent-completed language development checklists) are a helpful tool to assess language in children who are unused to interaction with unfamiliar adults. Generally, CDIs are completed in written form, but in developing country settings parents may have insufficient literacy to complete them alone. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Measures (Individuals), Check Lists
Labrell, Florence; van Geert, Paul; Declercq, Christelle; Baltazart, Véronique; Caillies, Stéphanie; Olivier, Marie; Le Sourn-Bissaoui, Sandrine – First Language, 2014
Dynamic analyses of language growth tell us how vocabulary and grammar develop and how the two might be intertwined. Analyses of growth curves between 17 and 42 months, based on longitudinal data for 34 children, revealed interesting patterns of vocabulary and grammatical developments. They showed that these patterns were nonlinear, but with…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Profiles, Infants, Toddlers
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2