“They’re Going to Forget About Their Mother Tongue”: Influence of Chinese Beliefs in Child Home Language and Literacy Development
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DOI: 10.1007/s10643-021-01241-x
Abstract: The primary aim of this study was to explore and understand Chinese American parents’ language and literacy beliefs, perceptions, and practices with regard to their preschool-age children. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods study design, parents… read more here.
Keywords: child language; literacy development; language literacy; language ... See more keywords
Ditransitive structures in child language acquisition: An investigation of production and comprehension in children aged five to seven.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000922000174
Abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence matching task measuring accuracy and response times (comprehension). We examined… read more here.
Keywords: five seven; ditransitive structures; production; comprehension ... See more keywords
Keep the Ball Rolling: Sustained Multiturn Conversational Episodes Are Associated With Child Language Ability.
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DOI: 10.1044/2022_ajslp-21-00333
Abstract: PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between interaction quality and child language ability. We focused on one promising interaction quality indicator-the rate of multiturn conversational episodes. We also explored whether… read more here.
Keywords: language ability; multiturn conversational; language; conversational episodes ... See more keywords
Parent coaching from 6 to 18 months improves child language outcomes through 30 months of age.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13391
Abstract: Interventions focused on the home language environment have been shown to improve a number of child language outcomes in the first years of life. However, data on the longer-term effects of the intervention are still… read more here.
Keywords: language; parent; intervention; months age ... See more keywords
Explainability of neural networks for child language: Agent-First strategy in comprehension of Korean active transitive construction.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13405
Abstract: This study investigates how neural networks address the properties of children's linguistic knowledge, with a focus on the Agent-First strategy in comprehension of an active transitive construction in Korean. We develop various neural-network models and… read more here.
Keywords: neural networks; strategy; agent first; comprehension ... See more keywords
Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling of the Quantity Implicature in Child Language
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DOI: 10.1177/00238309211066086
Abstract: We review an array of experimental methodological factors that either contribute to or detract from the measurement of pragmatic implicatures in child language. We carry out a truth value judgment task to measure children’s interpretations… read more here.
Keywords: piecewise structural; structural equation; language; implicature ... See more keywords
How diverse is child language acquisition research?
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237211066405
Abstract: A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and… read more here.
Keywords: language; language acquisition; indo european; research ... See more keywords
Acquisition of cumulative conditioning effects on words: Spanish-speaking children’s [subject pronoun + verb] usage
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237211067574
Abstract: Child language acquisition research has provided ample evidence of lexical frequency effects. This corpus-based analysis introduces a novel frequency measure shown to significantly constrain adult language variation, but heretofore unexplored in child language acquisition research.… read more here.
Keywords: conditioning effects; language; language acquisition; acquisition ... See more keywords
Child language acquisition research on indigenous African sign languages: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237221104049
Abstract: It is not always the case that an endangered language goes through a revitalisation programme. For most endangered languages, there are no attempts for revitalisation, and we may never hear of them, nor understand their… read more here.
Keywords: language; language acquisition; sign languages; research ... See more keywords
Bilingual children acting as language brokers in Italy: Their affective and cognitive attitudes about the practice
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DOI: 10.1177/13670069211058268
Abstract: Aims and objectives: This paper sets out to examine Italian bilingual children’ attitudes about Child Language Brokering (CLB), with a focus on the perceived feelings (affective component of attitudes) and benefits (cognitive component of attitudes)… read more here.
Keywords: practice; language; bilingual children; affective cognitive ... See more keywords
Estimating measurement error in child language assessments administered by daycare educators in large scale intervention studies
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255414
Abstract: Measurement error is a ubiquitous element of social science studies. In large-scale effectiveness intervention studies on child language, administration of the assessment of language and preliteracy outcomes by speech and language pathologists is costly in… read more here.
Keywords: child language; daycare educators; measurement error; intervention studies ... See more keywords