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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
Ní Chéileachair, Fódhla; Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Sorace, Antonella; Paradis, Johanne; De Aguiar, Vânia – Journal of Child Language, 2023
The current study sought to investigate whether word properties can facilitate the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in sequential bilinguals by analyzing properties in nouns and verbs in L2 spontaneous speech as potential DLD markers. Measures of semantic (imageability, concreteness), lexical (frequency, age of acquisition)…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Bilingualism, Nouns
Scherger, Anna-Lena; Kizilirmak, Jasmin M.; Folta-Schoofs, Kristian – Journal of Child Language, 2023
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 German five-to seven-year-old typically developing children and an adult control group.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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
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
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
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
Cho, Hye-Jung; Kiaer, Jieun; Choi, Naya; Song, Jieun – Journal of Child Language, 2022
In Korean language, questions containing ambiguous wh-words may be interpreted as either wh-questions or yes-no questions. This study investigated 43 Korean three-year-olds' ability to disambiguate eight indeterminate questions using prosodic and visual cues. The intonation of each question provided a cue as to whether it should be interpreted as…
Descriptors: Korean, Suprasegmentals, Young Children, Cues
Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Yuen, Ivan; Holt, Rebecca; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Learning to use word versus phrase level prosody to identify compounds from lists is thought to be a protracted process, only acquired by 11 years (Vogel & Raimy, 2002). However, a recent study has shown that 5-year-olds can use prosodic cues other than stress for these two structures in production, at least for early-acquired noun-noun…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Cues
De Cat, Cécile; Melia, Tara – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The Sentence Structure sub-test (SST) of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) aims to "measure the acquisition of grammatical (structural) rules at the sentence level". Although originally designed for clinical practice with monolingual children, components of the CELF, such as the SST, are often used to inform…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Language Tests, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes
Fibla, Laia; Sebastian-Gales, Nuria; Cristia, Alejandrina – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Since there are no systematic pauses delimiting words in speech, the problem of word segmentation is formidable even for monolingual infants. We use computational modeling to assess whether word segmentation is substantially harder in a bilingual than a monolingual setting. Seven algorithms representing different cognitive approaches to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Young Children, Spanish
Lindgren, Josefin – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This longitudinal study investigated the development of oral narrative skills in monolingual Swedish-speaking children (N = 17). The MAIN Cat/Dog stories were administered at four timepoints between age 4 and 9. Different narrative aspects were found to develop differently. In story comprehension, the children performed high already at T1 (4;4)…
Descriptors: Young Children, Swedish, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Amoako, Wendy Kwakye; Stemberger, Joseph Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2021
This paper addresses how input variability in the adult phonological system is mastered in the output of young children in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, involving variability between labio-palatalized consonants and front rounded vowels. The high-frequency variant involves a complex consonant which is expected to be mastered late, while…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Adults, Phonology
Polišenská, Kamila; Chiat, Shula; Szewczyk, Jakub; Twomey, Katherine E. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Theories of language processing differ with respect to the role of abstract syntax and semantics vs surface-level lexical co-occurrence (n-gram) frequency. The contribution of each of these factors has been demonstrated in previous studies of children and adults, but none have investigated them jointly. This study evaluated the role of all three…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Syntax
Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Trudeau, Natacha; Champoux, François – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Pierce "et al." (2017) have proposed that variations in the timing, quality and quantity of language input during the earliest stages of development are related to variations in the development of phonological working memory and, in turn, to later language learning outcomes. To examine this hypothesis, three groups of children who are…
Descriptors: Phonology, At Risk Persons, Linguistic Input, Short Term Memory