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Petri, Abigail; Mayr, Robert; Zhao, Fei; Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study examines the content and function of parent-child talk while engaging in shared storybook reading with two narrative books: a wordless book versus a book with text. Thirty-six parents audio-recorded themselves reading one of the books at home with their 3.5-5.5-year-old children. Pragmatic and linguistic measures of parental and child…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Grammar, Feedback (Response), Cues
Boonen, Nathalie; Kloots, Hanne; Nurzia, Pietro; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Speaking intelligibly is an important achievement in children's language development. How far do congenitally severe-to-profound hearing-impaired children who received a cochlear implant (CI) in the first two years of their life advance on the path to intelligibility in comparison to children with typical hearing (NH)? Spontaneous speech samples…
Descriptors: Young Children, Assistive Technology, Speech Communication, Intelligibility
Muhinyi, Amber; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Caregiver abstract talk during shared reading predicts preschool-age children's vocabulary development. However, previous research has focused on level of abstraction with less consideration of the style of extratextual talk. Here, we investigated the relation between these two dimensions of extratextual talk, and their contributions to variance…
Descriptors: Prediction, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Reading Aloud to Others
Ramon-Casas, Marta; Cortes, Susana; Benet, Ariadna; Lleo, Conxita; Bosch, Laura – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigates perception and production of the Catalan mid-vowel /e/-/[epsilon]/ contrast by two groups of 4.5-year-old Catalan-Spanish bilingual children, differing in language dominance. Perception was assessed with an XAB discrimination task involving familiar words and non-words. Production accuracy was measured using a familiar-word…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Young Children, Spanish, Language Dominance
Meziane, Rabia Sabah; MacLeod, Andrea A. N. – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study aims to describe the relationships between child-internal and child-external factors and the consonant accuracy of bilingual children. More specifically, the study looks at internal factors: expressive and receptive vocabulary, and external factors: language exposure and language status, of a group of 4-year-old bilingual Arabic-French…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Arabic, French, Preschool Children
Yu, Haopeng; Wang, Haiyan; He, Xiaowei – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This paper investigates the comprehension of Relative Clauses (RCs) in 15 Mandarin children with suspected Specific Language Impairment (SLI) (aged between 4; 5 and 6; 0) and 29 typically developing (TD) controls. Results from a Character Picture Matching Task indicate that (i) the subject RC was better understood than the object RC in children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Impairments, Phrase Structure, Comprehension
Zamuner, Tania S.; Rabideau, Theresa; McDonald, Margarethe; Yeung, H. Henny – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigates how children aged two to eight years (N = 129) and adults (N = 29) use auditory and visual speech for word recognition. The goal was to bridge the gap between apparent successes of visual speech processing in young children in visual-looking tasks, with apparent difficulties of speech processing in older children from…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Listening Comprehension, Auditory Discrimination
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Journal of Child Language, 2023
How does parental causal input relate to children's later comprehension of causal verbs? Causal constructions in verbs differ across languages. Turkish has both lexical and morphological causatives. We asked whether (1) parental causal language input varied for different types of play (guided vs. free play), (2) early parental causal language…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Interpersonal Communication, Comprehension, Verbs
Castillo, Eva; Pronina, Mariia; Hübscher, Iris; Prieto, Pilar – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Over recent decades much research has analyzed the relevance of 9- to 20-month-old infants' early imitation skills (object- and language-based imitation) for language development. Yet there have been few systematic comparisons of the joint relevance of these imitative behaviors later on in development. This correlational study investigated whether…
Descriptors: Young Children, Imitation, Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities
Gandolfi, Elena; Usai, Maria Carmen; Traverso, Laura; Viterbori, Paola – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The study investigates whether Italian verbal inflectional morphology is associated with inhibitory control skills after controlling for receptive vocabulary and verbal working memory. A sample of Italian preschoolers aged 4;0 to 6;0 was assessed using a standardized inhibitory control task tapping two different inhibitory skills (response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Italian, Grammar
De Cat, Cécile; Unsworth, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Paradis' keynote article provides a comprehensive overview of factors influencing bilingual children's dual language abilities. It includes the 'usual suspects', such as input quantity, and also highlights areas requiring further investigation, such as cognitive abilities. As such, it will no doubt serve as a valuable basis for the field as we…
Descriptors: Influences, Predictor Variables, Bilingualism, Causal Models
Diessel, Holger; Monakhov, Sergei – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This paper examines the acquisition of demonstratives (e.g., "that," "there") from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although demonstratives are often said to play a crucial role in L1 acquisition, there is little systematic research on this topic. Using extensive corpus data of spontaneous child speech, the paper investigates…
Descriptors: Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Indonesian
Hsu, Chun-Chieh – Journal of Child Language, 2023
This study investigated why object-gap relative clauses (RCs) are dominant in early child Mandarin. We discuss how restrictive-RCs differ from pseudo-RCs syntactically and pragmatically, and examine how these two types of RCs are distributed in the RC utterances of ten children and their caregivers. The results showed that (a) Mandarin-speaking…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Phrase Structure, Syntax
Chondrogianni, Vicky – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Paradis' (2023) keynote article is a timely documentation of the ongoing shift in focus within childhood bilingualism research from investigating the factors that modulate majority or second language (ML/L2) attainment (Chondrogianni & Marinis, 2011) to understanding the sources of variation that lead to minority heritage language (HL)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Children, Learning Processes, Language Skills
Meir, Natalia – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Large individual differences in language skills are well documented in monolingual children (e.g., Kidd, Donnelly & Christiansen, 2018). In bilinguals, the broad variation is even more pronounced. Interestingly, some bilingual children might be weak in their Heritage Language (HL, also labeled as Minority Language, Home Language, Community…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Language Skills, Bilingualism, Young Children