Differences in sentence complexity in the text of children's picture books and child-directed speech [0.03%]
儿童图画书文本与儿童定向言语中的句子复杂度差异
Jessica L Montag
Jessica L Montag
Reading picture books to pre-literate children is associated with improved language outcomes, but the causal pathways of this relationship are not well understood. The present analyses focus on several syntactic differences between the text...
Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder [0.03%]
针对自闭症高危与低危婴幼儿使用人称代词的母语输入差异研究
Angela Xiaoxue He,Rhiannon Luyster,Sung Ju Hong et al.
Angela Xiaoxue He et al.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are prone to personal pronoun difficulties. This paper investigates maternal input as a potential contributing factor, focusing on an early developmental stage before ASD diagnosis. Using Quigley...
The effects of phonological skills and vocabulary on morphophonological processing [0.03%]
音系技能和词汇对morphophonological处理的影响
Tiffany Boersma,Anne Baker,Judith Rispens et al.
Tiffany Boersma et al.
Morphophonological processing involves the phonological analysis of morphemes. Item-specific phonological characteristics have been shown to influence morphophonological skills in children. This study investigates the relative contributions...
The developmental path to adult-like prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children [0.03%]
学习说普通话的孩子如何走上成人化的语调焦点标记道路
Anqi Yang,Aoju Chen
Anqi Yang
This study investigates how children acquire prosodic focus-marking in Mandarin Chinese. Using a picture-matching game, we elicited spontaneous production of sentences in various focus conditions from children aged four to eleven. We found ...
Margaret Friend
Margaret Friend
This paper reports a transition from affective to linguistic meaning in 15-month-old infants. Behaviour regulation in the context of a social referencing procedure is used as a measure of the meaning of stimulus messages for infants. Of par...
Ágnes Lukács,Bence Kas,Laurence B Leonard
Ágnes Lukács
This study examines whether children with specific language impairment (SLI) acquiring a language with a rich case marking system (Hungarian) have difficulty with case, and, if so, whether the difficulty is comparable for spatial and nonspa...
Productive Vocabulary among Three Groups of Bilingual American Children: Comparison and Prediction [0.03%]
美国双语儿童三组生产性词汇的比较和预测
Linda R Cote,Marc H Bornstein
Linda R Cote
The importance of input factors for bilingual children's vocabulary development was investigated. Forty-seven Argentine, 42 South Korean, 51 European American, 29 Latino immigrant, 26 Japanese immigrant, and 35 Korean immigrant mothers comp...
Susanne Miyata,Brian MacWhinney,Kiyoshi Otomo et al.
Susanne Miyata et al.
This paper reports on the development and use of the Developmental Sentence Scoring for Japanese (DSSJ), a new morpho-syntactical measure for Japanese constructed after the model of the English Developmental Sentence Scoring model (Lee, 197...
Irina A Sekerina,John C Trueswell
Irina A Sekerina
Children's ability to interpret color adjective noun phrases (e.g., red butterfly) as contrastive was examined in an eyetracking study with 6-year-old Russian children. Pitch accent placement (on the adjective red, or on the noun butterfly)...
Josita Maouene,Aarre Laakso,Linda B Smith
Josita Maouene
Many of the verbs that young children learn early have been characterized as 'light.' However, there is no agreed upon definition of 'lightness' and no useable metric that could be applied to a wide array of verbs. This article provides evi...