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Yang, Jing; Fox, Robert A.; Jacewicz, Ewa – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This longitudinal case study documents the emergence of bilingualism in a young monolingual Mandarin boy on the basis of an acoustic analysis of his vowel productions recorded via a picture-naming task over 20 months following his enrollment in an all-English (L2) preschool at the age of 3;7. The study examined (1) his initial L2 vowel space, (2)…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Hemsley, Gayle; Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study investigated cross-linguistic influence in acquisition of a second lexicon, evaluating Samoan-English sequentially bilingual children (initial mean age 4 ; 9) during their first 18 months of school. Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary tasks evaluated acquisition of four word types: cognates, matched nouns, phrasal nouns and holonyms.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Bergmann, Christina; Paulus, Markus; Fikkert, Paula – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Pronouns seem to be acquired in an asymmetrical way, where children confuse the meaning of pronouns with reflexives up to the age of six, but not vice versa. Children's production of the same referential expressions is appropriate at the age of four. However, response-based tasks, the usual means to investigate child language comprehension, are…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Child Language, Preschool Children, Eye Movements
Samuelson, Larissa K.; Horst, Jessica S.; Schutte, Anne R.; Dobbertin, Brandi N. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
Young children learning English are biased to attend to the shape of solid rigid objects when learning novel names. This study seeks further understanding of the processes that support this behavior by examining a previous finding that three-year-old children are also biased to generalize novel names for objects made from deformable materials by…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Preschool Children, Child Language, Vocabulary
Wilkinson, Krista M.; Mazzitelli, Kim – Journal of Child Language, 2003
This paper explores "fast mapping", one of several processes that have been proposed to be involved in the rapid vocabulary expansion observed in the preschool years. An adaptation of a receptive word matching task examined how well children retained a just-mapped relation between word and referent when some information was later missing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children