It's Hey Jude, not Hey Jade: Input Variation and the Emergence of the Infant Lexicon [0.03%]
《它是Hey Jude而不是Hey Jade——输入变化与婴儿词汇量的产生》
Helen Buckler,Elizabeth K Johnson
Helen Buckler
A growing literature explores the representational detail of infants' early lexical representations, but no study has investigated how exposure to real-life acoustic-phonetic variation impacts these representations. Indeed, previous experim...
Comprehension and production of English plural morphology by school-age deaf and hard-of-hearing children [0.03%]
听障儿童对英语名词复数形态的掌握及产出
Rebecca Holt,Benjamin Davies,Katherine Demuth
Rebecca Holt
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) preschoolers have difficulty comprehending and producing English plural morphology. This study investigated their comprehension and production of the plural at primary-school age using novel words, to better u...
Hannah Lee,Shanley E M Allen
Hannah Lee
Demonstratives and locative adverbs cross-linguistically are typically acquired relatively late, with children initially overusing proximal forms. However, these findings are largely based on research in languages with only two or three dem...
The acquisition of plain-emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: An acoustic study [0.03%]
从声学角度研究说阿拉伯语的儿童习得清送气辅音对立的情况
Anwar Alkhudidi,Rebecca Holt,Tuende Szalay et al.
Anwar Alkhudidi et al.
Arabic emphatic consonants are claimed to be late-acquired, likely due to their motoric complexity, involving both coronal and pharyngeal/uvular constrictions. Children's production has largely been studied using impressionistic data, with ...
Mandarin-learning toddlers' sensitivity to noun phrase word order: An investigation of an early bias for language universals [0.03%]
学习普通话的幼儿对名词短语词序的敏感性：一种针对语言普遍特征早期偏好的调查研究
Lean Luo,Xiaolu Yang,Stella Christie et al.
Lean Luo et al.
The current study probes Mandarin-learning toddlers' sensitivity to two grammatical noun phrase orders differing in typological markedness. With three visual fixation experiments, we find that by age 2;6, children distinguish the cross-ling...
Home Literacy Practices and Oral Language Development of Young Immigrant Dual Language Learners: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
移民双语学习者在家的读写实践和语言发展：从新冠疫情之前到疫情期间的变化
Emily Mak,Jade Lee,Qing Zhou et al.
Emily Mak et al.
This longitudinal study investigates the changes in bilingual oral language proficiency and home language and literacy practices of young Chinese American and Mexican American dual language learners (DLLs) before and during the COVID-19 pan...
Sara Ferman,Ilan Roziner,Yael Zaltz
Sara Ferman
This study aimed to explore the effect of various feedback types on word learning in preschool children, with consideration of the word's morpho-phonological structure. Sixty-three five-year-old children participated in three sessions of le...
Kevin Liang,Megha Sundara
Kevin Liang
Recent research has shown that 6-month-olds relate novel words suffixed with -s, like babs, that are embedded in passages, with just the stem bab, demonstrating an early sensitivity to morphological relatedness. This study builds on these f...
Simulating procedural discovery in early language acquisition: Domain-general cognition with contextual learning [0.03%]
模拟语言习得早期的程序化发现过程：一般认知能力与情境学习
Yang Ji,Jacolien van Rij,Niels Taatgen
Yang Ji
We present a simulation study based on a cognitive architecture that unifies various early language acquisition phenomena in laboratory and naturalistic settings. The model adaptively learns procedures through trial-and-error using general-...
Does hearing "and" help children understand "or"? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian [0.03%]
儿童理解"或者"时需要听到"和"吗？来自罗马尼亚儿童学习析取结构的刻度和相关性见解
Adina Camelia Bleotu,Mara Panaitescu,Gabriela Bîlbîie et al.
Adina Camelia Bleotu et al.
Children are known to derive more implicatures when the required alternative is made salient through contrast or when it is made contextually relevant through a story or a Question Under Discussion. We investigated the exclusivity implicatu...