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Chacon, Thiago Costa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation offers a detailed account of the phonology, morphophonology and elements of the morphosyntax of Kubeo, a language from the Eastern Tukanoan family, spoken in the Northwest Amazon. The dissertation is itself an experiment of how language documentation and empowering of the native speaker community can be combined with academic…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Phonology, Morphophonemics, Syntax
McCracken, Chelsea Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is a description of the grammar of Belep [yly], an Austronesian language variety spoken by about 1600 people in and around the Belep Isles in New Caledonia. The grammar begins with a summary of the cultural and linguistic background of Belep speakers, followed by chapters on Belep phonology and phonetics, morphology and word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Influences
O'Toole, Ciara; Fletcher, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Investigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Word Order, Vocabulary Development, Irish
Hahn, Erin R.; Cantrell, Lisa – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Considerable research has demonstrated that English-speaking children extend nouns on the basis of shape. Here we asked whether the development of this bias is influenced by the structure of a child's primary language. We tested English- and Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 1 ; 10 and 3 ; 4 in a novel noun generalization task. Results…
Descriptors: Children, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking
Snedeker, Jesse; Geren, Joy; Shafto, Carissa L. – Cognitive Psychology, 2012
Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants, these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive maturation and development. To disentangle these factors, we compared the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted…
Descriptors: Expertise, Nouns, Linguistics, Infants
Ravid, Dorit; Schiff, Rachel – Language Learning, 2012
This study investigates the development of plural adjective agreement in Hebrew, focusing on the consolidation of Hebrew number/gender morphology in children and adolescents across the school years in comparison with adults. A total of 240 Hebrew-speaking participants in seven consecutive grade levels (kindergarten to sixth grade) plus a group of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reaction Time, Nouns, Morphology (Languages)
Graham, Susan A.; Booth, Amy E.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Although there is considerable evidence that nouns highlight category-based commonalities, including both those that are perceptually available and those that reflect underlying conceptual similarity, some have claimed that words function merely as features of objects. Here, we directly test these alternative accounts. Four-year-olds (n = 140)…
Descriptors: Nouns, Preschool Children, Animals, Naming
Culbertson, Jennifer; Smolensky, Paul; Legendre, Geraldine – Cognition, 2012
How recurrent typological patterns, or universals, emerge from the extensive diversity found across the world's languages constitutes a central question for linguistics and cognitive science. Recent challenges to a fundamental assumption of generative linguistics--that universal properties of the human language acquisition faculty constrain the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Linguistics, Artificial Languages
Xia, Lixin – English Language Teaching, 2013
The paper makes a contrastive study on the performance of verb-noun collocation given by Chinese EFL learners based on the CLEC, ICLE and BNC. First, all the concordance lines with the token "ability" in the CLEC were collected and analyzed. Then, they were tagged manually in order to sort out the sentences in the verb-noun collocation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Crossley, Scott A.; Subtirelu, Nicholas; Salsbury, Tom – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
This study examines frequency, contextual diversity, and contextual distinctiveness effects in predicting produced versus not-produced frequent nouns and verbs by early second language (L2) learners of English. The study analyzes whether word frequency is the strongest predictor of early L2 word production independent of contextual diversity and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Word Frequency, Vocabulary Development, Nouns
Bianchi, Giulia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This study compares mastery of gender assignment and agreement in Italian by adult Italian-German bilinguals who have acquired two languages simultaneously (2L1), and by adult German highly proficient second language learners (L2ers) of Italian. Our data show that incompleteness in bilingual acquisition and in second language (L2) acquisition…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, German, Italian
Andreu, Llorenc; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Trueswell, John C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
Twenty-five children with specific language impairment (SLI; age 5 years, 3 months [5;3]-8;2), 50 typically developing children (3;3-8;2), and 31 normal adults participated in three eye-tracking experiments of spoken language comprehension that were designed to investigate the use of verb information during real-time sentence comprehension in…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Semantics, Language Impairments, Speech
Chen, Liang; Lei, Jianghua – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This study evaluates the extent to which the production of referring expressions such as noun phrases and pronouns to fulfill various discourse functions in narratives of Chinese-English bilingual children matches that of their monolingual peers in each of the two languages. Spoken narratives in English and Chinese were elicited from 30 9-year-old…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Picture Books, Nouns
Abdalla, Fauzia; Aljenaie, Khawla; Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study examined the production of three types of noun plural inflections, feminine sound plural (FSP), masculine sound plural (MSP), and broken plural (BP) in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children with and without language impairment. A total of thirty-six Kuwaiti participants-twelve adults, twelve children with specific language impairment (SLI),…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Child Language, Morphemes
Skoruppa, Katrin; Mani, Nivedita; Peperkamp, Sharon – Child Development, 2013
Using a picture pointing task, this study examines toddlers' processing of phonological alternations that trigger sound changes in connected speech. Three experiments investigate whether 2;5- to 3-year-old children take into account assimilations--processes by which phonological features of one sound spread to adjacent sounds--for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Toddlers, Language Processing, Phonology