Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 5 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 23 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 71 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 138 |
Descriptor
Toddlers | 198 |
Verbs | 198 |
Language Acquisition | 155 |
Child Language | 77 |
Syntax | 66 |
Grammar | 58 |
Nouns | 50 |
Foreign Countries | 44 |
Vocabulary Development | 44 |
Language Usage | 41 |
English | 35 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Early Childhood Education | 8 |
Preschool Education | 4 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Grade 5 | 1 |
Audience
Location
Germany | 6 |
France | 5 |
Illinois | 5 |
Canada | 3 |
Israel | 3 |
Czech Republic | 2 |
Guatemala | 2 |
Hong Kong | 2 |
Netherlands | 2 |
New York (New York) | 2 |
Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | 2 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hadley, Pamela A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This review article summarizes programmatic research on sentence diversity in toddlers developing language typically and explores developmental patterns of sentence diversity in toddlers at risk for specific language impairment. Method: The first half of this review article presents a sentence-focused approach to language assessment and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Toddlers, Language Impairments, Language Processing
Snape, Simon; Krott, Andrea – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Young children are conservative when extending novel verbs to novel exemplars. We investigated whether multiple, simultaneously presented exemplars would aid young children's verb learning, as well as the importance of exemplar variability. Three-year-olds were taught novel verbs, while viewing either one action-scene featuring a novel action…
Descriptors: Verbs, Toddlers, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition
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
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
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
Ninio, Anat – First Language, 2019
In children acquiring various languages, the early mastery of determiners strongly predicts syntactic development. What makes determiners important is not yet clear as there is a linguistic controversy regarding their syntactic behaviour. Some consider determiners to be similar to adjectives and to modify common nouns, while others consider the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, English, Nouns