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The Causative-Inchoative Alternation and Age-of-Acquisition Effects on Multi-predicate Constructions in Turkish Sign Language 土耳其手语多谓语结构的致动交替和习得年龄效应

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2047690

D. Kayabaşı, Kadir Gökgöz

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The Influence of Accent Distance on Perceptual Adaptation in Toddlers and Adults 口音距离对幼儿和成人知觉适应的影响

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-05-06 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2047688

Angela Cooper, Melissa Paquette-Smith, Caterina Bordignon, E. K. Johnson

{"title":"The Influence of Accent Distance on Perceptual Adaptation in Toddlers and Adults","authors":"Angela Cooper, Melissa Paquette-Smith, Caterina Bordignon, E. K. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2022.2047688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2047688","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Foreign accents can vary considerably in the degree to which they deviate from the listener’s native accent, but little is known about how the relationship between a speaker’s accent and a listener’s native language phonology mediates adaptation. Using an artificial accent methodology, we addressed this issue by constructing a set of three artificial accents (Near, Far, and Farther), varying in the number and magnitude of pronunciation deviations from standard Canadian English. These accents were presented to toddlers and adults in an eye-tracking task. Regardless of accent type, adults readily adapted to the exposed pronunciation change. Adults exposed to the Farther accent were also more willing to accept novel pronunciation changes. Young toddlers exposed to Far or Farther accents showed no evidence of acquiring the exposed pronunciation change and demonstrated worse word recognition for standard Canadian-accented words. These findings suggest that when a speaker’s accent deviates substantially from a young toddler’s native accent, this may lead to a significant decrement in their ability to recognize not only an unfamiliar accent but also native-accented speech. Overall, these findings provide a well-controlled test of competing models of accent adaptation and generate multiple hypotheses to be examined in the future using more ecologically valid stimuli.","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"3 1","pages":"74 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83095629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comprehension of Null and Pronominal Object Sentences in Japanese-speaking Children 日语儿童对原代词宾语句的理解

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-05-02 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2050235

Yuko Okumura, Y. Oshima-Takane, Tessei Kobayashi, Michelle Ma, Yuhko Kayama

{"title":"Comprehension of Null and Pronominal Object Sentences in Japanese-speaking Children","authors":"Yuko Okumura, Y. Oshima-Takane, Tessei Kobayashi, Michelle Ma, Yuhko Kayama","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2022.2050235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2050235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In successful communication, it is critical to have the ability to identify what a speaker is referring to from previously mentioned information. This ability requires the identification of the topic initially introduced by lexical forms and its continuity in discourse expressed by anaphora such as null and pronominal forms in the subsequent sentences. While Japanese-speaking children are frequently provided with pronominal and null forms, especially the null form, in reference to previously mentioned topics, it remains unclear from what age they understand the anaphoric use of such referential forms. The current study investigated the age at which Japanese-speaking children are able to identify the presence of topic chains connecting null and pronoun anaphora to the topic referred to by a lexical form in the preceding sentence. We tested children’s comprehension of null and pronominal object sentences using an intermodal preferential-looking paradigm. The results demonstrated that the Japanese-speaking children aged 2;7 and 3;2 as a group looked at the target animation reliably longer after hearing the test sentences than before or during the test sentences. This finding provides evidence that Japanese-speaking children’s ability to track topic chains and understand anaphora in the discourse develop by 2;7 years of age. However, unlike the 3;2-year-old group, the 2;7-year-old group showed weaker performance in interpreting pronominal object sentences, suggesting a possibility that young children find the interpretation of null anaphora easier than that of pronoun anaphora.","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"30 1","pages":"151 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84130848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Relations between Cardinal Number Knowledge and Quantifier Comprehension 基数知识与量词理解的关系

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-04-19 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2060832

Meiling Yang, Yunqi Wang

{"title":"The Relations between Cardinal Number Knowledge and Quantifier Comprehension","authors":"Meiling Yang, Yunqi Wang","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2022.2060832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2022.2060832","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How does linguistic structure affect children’s developing cardinal number knowledge? The bootstrapping theory proposes that children might use syntactic information provided by known words such as quantifiers to bootstrap the meanings of unfamiliar words such as number words. Prior studies of numeral and quantifier development have indicated that the bootstrapping mechanism that children can use to discover numeral meanings might work differently in different languages. Nevertheless, support for this conclusion remains preliminary. The present study explored this hypothesis through an investigation of the possible relations between cardinal number knowledge and quantifier comprehension in Mandarin Chinese-speaking children. Notably, in contrast with previous studies, this study also offered a glimpse into children’s receptive vocabulary development and its relation with cardinal number knowledge and quantifier comprehension. Results showed that cardinal number knowledge did not seem to be correlated with quantifier comprehension (both “exact” and “non-exact” quantifiers) when controlling for such covariates as children’s age, gender, parent education, and family income. Moreover, children’s receptive vocabulary size explained a significant amount of variance in their quantifier knowledge over and above children’s age, gender, parent education, and family income, but not in their cardinal number development over and above these covariates. These results provide further evidence for the hypothesis that while the bootstrapping mechanism may facilitate number word learning in children speaking languages like English, it might play a lesser role in children speaking classifier languages such as Mandarin Chinese. Implications for the role that general receptive vocabulary plays in the acquisition of number words and quantifiers are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"213 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89288711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Acknowledgement of Reviewers 审稿人致谢

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2042151

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Home Literacy Environment and English as A Second Language Acquisition: A Meta-analysis 家庭读写环境与英语作为第二语言习得的元分析

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.2003197

Yang Dong, B. Chow

引用次数: 5

Phonological Short-Term Memory: When Bilingualism Matters 语音短期记忆:双语能力的重要性

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-01-05 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.2014846

E. Zaretsky, Benjamin P. Lange, C. Hey

{"title":"Phonological Short-Term Memory: When Bilingualism Matters","authors":"E. Zaretsky, Benjamin P. Lange, C. Hey","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2021.2014846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.2014846","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Non-word repetition tasks are widely used to assess phonological short-term memory (PSTM). Results of previous research on the performance of monolingual and bilingual children in PSTM tasks are inconclusive. Although in some studies bilinguals did outperform monolinguals in the repetition of non-words, most studies reported comparatively weak results of bilingual children, especially when they were tested in their L2. In this study, four-year-old monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German (N = 1,441) were tested with both German-based (GBNW) and quasi-universal non-words (QUNW). It was hypothesized that bilinguals would outperform monolinguals both in (a) GBNW under the condition of comparable German language skills and (b) QUNW without any preconditions because QUNW do not presuppose a good command of German. Bilinguals yielded significantly lower results in GBNW, but not in QUNW. After the exclusion of children with limited German language skills from both groups, bilinguals outperformed monolinguals in both tasks, especially in QUNW. It can be assumed that bilingualism puts higher demands on PSTM than monolingualism and thus contributes to its faster development. Unnecessary medical examinations and therapies that are sometimes prescribed to bilinguals due to a poor performance in German-based PSTM tasks can be avoided if QUNW are used instead of language-specific items.","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"65 1","pages":"34 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74383975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Announcement of the Peter Jusczyk Best Paper Award Peter Jusczyk最佳论文奖公布

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2042149

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Semantic Preview Benefit of Tibetan-Chinese Bilinguals during Chinese Reading 藏汉双语者在汉语阅读中的语义预览效应

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.2003198

Xu Xiao, Gaoding Jia, Aiping Wang

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Verbal and More: Multimodality in Adults’ and Toddlers’ Spontaneous Repetitions 语言和更多:成人和幼儿自发重复的多模态

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Language Learning and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2021.2008939

Marta Casla Soler, Eva Murillo, Silvia Nieva, Jessica Rodríguez, Celia Méndez-Cabezas, Irene Rujas

{"title":"Verbal and More: Multimodality in Adults’ and Toddlers’ Spontaneous Repetitions","authors":"Marta Casla Soler, Eva Murillo, Silvia Nieva, Jessica Rodríguez, Celia Méndez-Cabezas, Irene Rujas","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2021.2008939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.2008939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigated verbal imitation from a multimodal point of view, considering the mutual influence of children’s and adults’ participation. Sixteen Spanish-speaking children were observed longitudinally at 21, 24, and 30 months of age in natural settings. We analyzed the multimodal characteristics of children’s and adults’ repetitions, considering whether they were verbal, verbal-gestural, or gestural. In addition, we also analyzed the multimodal characteristics of the utterances that were repeated (source). Measures of vocabulary and grammatical levels were also taken into account at the three points in development. Results showed that verbal-gestural repetitions were frequent in the speech of children and adults, although not as frequent as verbal repetitions. Nevertheless, verbal-gestural speech was reproduced more frequently than verbal speech. Adults were more likely to reproduce children’s speech when it included gestures, which was also related to children’s linguistic level. Furthermore, children and adults synchronize their multimodal communicative behaviors, coordinating the modality of their repetitions with the modality of the source speech. The results are discussed taking into account the need to study the multimodal characteristics of child-directed speech, as well as the need to study verbal repetition and multimodal communicative behaviors simultaneously, as forms of interaction that are essential to language development.","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"16 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87965297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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