A Typological Approach to Child Language Research - The Case of Whole-Word Phonology [0.03%]
从类型学视角研究儿童语言:整词音韵学的案例分析
Clifton Pye,Donald N Stengel,Elena Babatsouli et al.
Clifton Pye et al.
We present the typological approach to child language research. The typological approach places language diversity at the centre of acquisition research, thereby limiting arbitrary adjustments to theory and practice. We apply the typologica...
The Role of Home Literacy Environment in Word Reading and Listening Comprehension in Chinese [0.03%]
家庭读写环境在培养儿童汉语字词解码和听力理解中的作用
Tomohiro Inoue,Su-Zhen Zhang,Yu Meng et al.
Tomohiro Inoue et al.
We examined the direct and indirect associations between home literacy environment (HLE) and children's listening comprehension and word reading in Chinese. Three hundred forty-seven Chinese kindergarten children (mean age = 74.01 months, 5...
Exploring the Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Pragmatic Language: Do Executive Function and Grammar Comprehension Have a Mediating Role? [0.03%]
探究社会经济地位对实用语言的影响:执行功能和语法理解起到中介作用吗?
Elena Cravet,Maria Carmen Usai
Elena Cravet
This study explores the relationships among socioeconomic status (SES), executive function (EF), grammar comprehension (GC), and pragmatic language (PL) in children aged 8-11. By employing a structural equation modelling approach, we aimed ...
Reaching Meaning through Language: What can Children Tell Us about Distributivity? [0.03%]
透过语言达至内涵的路径——儿童可以告诉我们什么样的分布量化关系吗?
Chiara Saponaro,Desiré Carioti,Martina Riva et al.
Chiara Saponaro et al.
Sentences with a plural subject receive a distributive reading if the predicate refers to the atomic members, or a collective one if it relates to the whole group. Previous accounts suggest that the distributive representation includes an a...
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish [0.03%]
儿童如何学会因果动词:土耳其语证据
Guanghao You,Ebru Ger,Moritz M Daum et al.
Guanghao You et al.
In this study, we explore how children learn causatives from the language they are exposed to in their everyday lives. Previous research has argued that argument structure is a crucial facilitator for learning causatives. Here, we examine t...
Leamos Juntos! Bilingual books support Latine parents' Spanish language use during book-sharing interactions [0.03%]
《一起阅读吧!》双语书籍支持拉丁裔父母在共读互动中使用西班牙语
Alejandra Reinoso,Milton Guendica,Adriana Weisleder
Alejandra Reinoso
Book-sharing interactions expose children to diverse language input, yet most research on parent-child book-sharing has focused on monolingual parents reading monolingual books. This study investigated how Latine bilingual parents in the U....
Ye Feng,René Kager,Regine Lai et al.
Ye Feng et al.
This study investigated how infants deal with cross-talker variability in the perception of native lexical tones, paying specific attention to developmental changes and the role of task demands. Using the habituation-based visual fixation p...
" Panda" or " Bear, cat": Mandarin-speaking preschoolers use duration and pitch to distinguish compounds and lists [0.03%]
“熊猫”还是“猫熊”:说普通话的学龄前儿童利用音节长度和音高来区分合成词和并列结构
Feng Xu,Ping Tang,Katherine Demuth et al.
Feng Xu et al.
Compounds (e.g., jellybeans) and list forms (e.g., jelly, beans) can be distinguished by the presence or absence of boundaries, marked by durational and pitch cues. Studies have shown that 5-year-olds learning English have acquired both cue...
Learning to comprehend and explain spatial metaphors for time in Chinese [0.03%]
学习理解和解释汉语中空间方位隐喻的时间含义
Jing Paul,Lauren J Stites,Şeyda Özçalışkan
Jing Paul
Time is frequently structured in terms of motion as moving-time (e.g., "summer is coming"), moving-ego (e.g., "we approach winter"), or sequence-as-position (e.g., "winter follows autumn") across the world's languages, including Chinese - a...
Accent the positive: An investigation into five-year-olds' implicit attitudes towards different regional accents [0.03%]
凸显积极面:五年级儿童对不同地方口音的内在态度研究
Ella Jeffries,Laurel Lawyer,Amanda Cole et al.
Ella Jeffries et al.
Regional accent biases in 27 Essex five-year-olds are investigated. This study is the first to analyse implicit language attitudes by measuring children's neural activity (event-related potentials) while they take part in an Implicit Associ...