The influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children varying in expressive vocabulary [0.03%]
学前儿童单词学习中部分词音节概率／密度的影响研究不同表达词汇量的儿童相关差异分析
Holly L Storkel,Jill R Hoover
Holly L Storkel
The goal of this study was to examine the influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children with normal vocabularies that varied in size. Ninety-eight children (age 2 ; 11-6 ; 0) were...
The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch [0.03%]
输入频率和语义透明度在动词意义习得中的作用——来自泰米尔语和荷兰语方位动词的证据
Bhuvana Narasimhan,Marianne Gullberg
Bhuvana Narasimhan
We investigate how Tamil- and Dutch-speaking adults and four- to five-year-old children use caused posture verbs ('lay/stand a bottle on a table') to label placement events in which objects are oriented vertically or horizontally. Tamil cau...
Comparative Study
Journal of child language. 2011 Jun;38(3):504-32. DOI:10.1017/S0305000910000164 2011
Prelinguistic predictors of language development in children with autism spectrum disorders over four-five years [0.03%]
自闭症儿童四到五年的语言发育的无词预测因素
Karen D Bopp,Pat Mirenda
Karen D Bopp
This study examined relationships between prelinguistic variables from the MacArthur-Bates CDI and the development of language comprehension and production in children with autism. Forty-four children were assessed at baseline and 6, 12, 24...
Suzanne Curtin
Suzanne Curtin
Lexical stress is useful for a number of language learning tasks. In particular, it helps infants segment the speech stream and identify phonetic contrasts. Recent work has demonstrated that infants aged 1;0 can learn two novel words differ...
The Linguistic Affiliation Constraint and phoneme recognition in diglossic Arabic [0.03%]
语言从属约束与双语阿拉伯语的音素识别
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad,Iris Levin,Nareman Hende et al.
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad et al.
This study tested the effect of the phoneme's linguistic affiliation (Standard Arabic versus Spoken Arabic) on phoneme recognition among five-year-old Arabic native speaking kindergarteners (N=60). Using a picture selection task of words be...
On the interaction of deaffrication and consonant harmony [0.03%]
关于不送气化的_affricate_和辅音同化之间相互作用的实验研究
Daniel A Dinnsen,Judith A Gierut,Michele L Morrisette et al.
Daniel A Dinnsen et al.
Error patterns in children's phonological development are often described as simplifying processes that can interact with one another with different consequences. Some interactions limit the applicability of an error pattern, and others ext...
Semantic categorization and reading skill across Dutch primary grades: development yes, relationship no [0.03%]
语义分类和阅读技能在荷兰小学各年级的发展及关联性研究：发展变化存在，但两者无相关性
Martine A R Gijsel,Ellen A Ormel,Daan Hermans et al.
Martine A R Gijsel et al.
In the present study, the development of semantic categorization and its relationship with reading was investigated across Dutch primary grade students. Three Exemplar-level tasks (Experiment 1) and two Superordinate-level tasks (Experiment...
Children's command of plural and possessive marking on Hebrew nouns: a comparison of obligatory versus optional inflections [0.03%]
希伯来语名词复数和所有格标记的掌握：必选还是可选？
Rachel Schiff,Dorit Ravid,Shany Levy-Shimon
Rachel Schiff
We compare learning of two inflection types - obligatory noun plurals and optional noun possessives. We tested 107 Hebrew-speaking children aged 6-7 on the same tasks at the beginning and end of first grade. Performance on both construction...
Comparative Study
Journal of child language. 2011 Mar;38(2):433-54. DOI:10.1017/S0305000909990547 2011
Carmen Martínez-Sussmann,Nameera Akhtar,Gil Diesendruck et al.
Carmen Martínez-Sussmann et al.
Children as young as two years of age are able to learn novel object labels through overhearing, even when distracted by an attractive toy (Akhtar, 2005). The present studies varied the information provided about novel objects and examined ...
An empirical generative framework for computational modeling of language acquisition [0.03%]
语言习得计算模型的经验生成框架
Heidi R Waterfall,Ben Sandbank,Luca Onnis et al.
Heidi R Waterfall et al.
This paper reports progress in developing a computer model of language acquisition in the form of (1) a generative grammar that is (2) algorithmically learnable from realistic corpus data, (3) viable in its large-scale quantitative performa...