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Corrigendum to “Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children” 公式化语言的加工优势在非相邻形式中是否依然存在？来自儿童汉语搭配加工的证据"

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241276902

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Inflectional morphology and reading comprehension in low SES Arabic-speaking second graders 低社会经济地位阿拉伯语二年级学生的词形变化和阅读理解能力

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241272523

Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum, Bahaa’ Makhoul

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Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon 晚谈者早期词汇的词语特征

IF 1.2 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241269568

Hila Gendler-Shalev, Rama Novogrodsky

{"title":"Word characteristics of late talkers’ early lexicon","authors":"Hila Gendler-Shalev, Rama Novogrodsky","doi":"10.1177/01427237241269568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241269568","url":null,"abstract":"Toddlers with smaller vocabulary than expected for their age are considered late talkers (LT). This study explored the effects of characteristics of words on vocabulary acquisition of 12- to 24-month-old LT children compared with an age matched (AM) and a vocabulary matched (VM) group of typically developing peers. Using the Hebrew-MacArthur-Bates-Communicative Development Inventory questionnaire, words were rated by adults for babiness, concreteness and iconicity and scored for phonological complexity. The effects of the characteristics of the words on their acquisition were examined. Results showed that the vocabulary of the toddlers from all three groups consisted of words that are more relevant to a child’s world and experience (babiness), more concrete, more phonologically simple, and more iconic. When LT children were compared to AM children, the characteristics of their vocabulary were different in terms of structure (e.g., iconicity) and meaning (e.g., concreteness), but similar in phonological complexity and babiness. When they were compared to VM peers, the vocabulary characteristics of LT children were similar, though they used words that were less related to babies’ world. The parallel patterns found for LT and VM children versus AM children suggest that LT children’s vocabularies differ from those of their age-matched peers due to their smaller size and not due to structural differences. The implications for theory and clinic are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141926529","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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Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian” 制定凝集语言的多语言单位测量准则：以格鲁吉亚语为例"

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241274419

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Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis 儿童定向言语中的交际功能：跨文化分析

IF 1.2 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241259065

Chen Zhao, L. Serratrice, E. Lieven, Circle Steele, Nivedita Malik, Yi An, Emily Hayden, Jo Neumegen, T. Cameron-Faulkner

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Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children 早期和高强度的 L2 接触对 L1 因果动词生成的影响：5、7 和 9 岁双语和单语儿童的比较

IF 1.2 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241264866

Aslı Aktan‐Erciyes, E. Ger, T. Göksun

{"title":"Influences of early and intense L2 exposure on L1 causal verb production: Comparison of 5-, 7-, and 9-year-old bilingual and monolingual children","authors":"Aslı Aktan‐Erciyes, E. Ger, T. Göksun","doi":"10.1177/01427237241264866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241264866","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the influences of early and intense L2 exposure on children’s L1 causative verb production, assessed by an experimental causative verb production task. Turkish expresses causality by morphological and lexical means, whereas English does so by periphrastic and lexical means. Learning L2 English might enhance L1 Turkish causative verb production by highlighting the parallels and contrasts in causal expressions between the languages, which may result in an enriched L1 causative use. Five-, 7 -, and 9-year-old L1-Turkish L2-English bilingual ( n = 80) and L1-Turkish monolingual ( n = 80) children participated in the study in L1-Turkish. Results indicated that language group differences only emerged for the use of morphological causative verbs in favor of 5-year-old bilinguals compared with monolingual peers. Age group differences occurred only for the monolingual group and only for morphological verbs. Specifically, monolingual 7- and 9-year-olds performed better than monolingual 5-year-olds. Causative verb-type differences were only seen for 5-year-old monolinguals, who performed better for lexical than morphological verbs; in contrast, 5-year-old bilinguals performed equally well on the two types of causatives, and better than 5-year-old monolinguals on morphological causatives. Overall, these findings indicate that learning an L2 with structural similarities and differences compared with L1 might enhance children’s awareness and correct use of causal linguistic structures.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801255","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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CLEM: A cross-language emotional metanorm in children CLEM：儿童跨语言情绪元规范

IF 1.2 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241266339

Johanne Belmon, Magali Noyer-Martin, Sandra Jhean-Larose

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Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children 科威特阿拉伯语儿童派生词形态的发展

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241261793

Nailah Al-Sulaihim, Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessattar Mahfoudhi, Saleh Shaalan

{"title":"Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children","authors":"Nailah Al-Sulaihim, Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessattar Mahfoudhi, Saleh Shaalan","doi":"10.1177/01427237241261793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241261793","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to examine the development of derivational morphological structures in the productive language of Kuwaiti Arabic (KA)-speaking children. Participants were 512 typically developing Kuwaiti children aged 3;0 years to 7;11 years (243 boys and 269 girls). Five age groups at 1-year intervals were tested; each group was divided into four sub-groups at 3-month intervals. The children were examined using a tool designed to assess structures specific to the KA dialect, and they were assessed by trained research assistants at their nurseries and public schools. There were clear developmental trajectories in the derivational morphological structures studied in KA-speaking children across the five age groups. Results showed that KA-speaking children have not reached mastery level in most of the structures examined in this study. Among the two types of derivations examined, nominal derivations emerged later than verb derivations. Error analysis showed that most errors were morphological, affecting mainly the root. The results of this study enhance our knowledge of early language development in Arabic by showing that nominal derivations develop later than verb derivations. The results are discussed in light of previous cross-linguistic studies, which also found a similar trajectory in terms of morphological development. Further, Arabic morphological theory, as well as implications for practice and the need for further research, is discussed.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141776781","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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Book Review: Zarchy, R. M. & Geer, L. C., A family-centered signed language curriculum to support deaf children’s language acquisition 书评：Zarchy, R. M. & Geer, L. C., A family-centered signed language curriculum to support deaf children's language acquisition

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241261423

Daniel Fobi

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Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers 针对讲波斯语的幼儿改编和验证词语复杂性测量方法

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-06-06 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241255423

Golnoosh Golmohammadi, Farhad Sakhai, Faezeh Asadollahpour, Kiana Nouhi, Naemeh Jafari, Zahra Baghejari

{"title":"Adaptation and validation of the word complexity measure for Persian-speaking toddlers","authors":"Golnoosh Golmohammadi, Farhad Sakhai, Faezeh Asadollahpour, Kiana Nouhi, Naemeh Jafari, Zahra Baghejari","doi":"10.1177/01427237241255423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237241255423","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to adapt and validate the Word Complexity Measure (WCM) for Persian-speaking toddlers. The WCM is a tool for assessing phonological complexity, originally proposed by Stoel-Gammon. The study was conducted in two phases: (1) adapting the WCM parameters to the Persian language and (2) conducting a validation study with 60 monolingual Persian-speaking toddlers aged 18–35 months. The toddlers’ language productions were collected through a picture-naming task, and the researchers derived the Proportion of Word Complexity Measure-Persian (PWCM-P) and Proportion of Consonant Correct (PCC) scores. Parents completed the Persian adapted version of the MacArthur-Bates Communication Development Inventories-II (CDI-II) to obtain receptive and expressive vocabulary scores for each child. Statistical analyses showed a significant difference in PWCM-P scores between age groups, with younger children producing fewer phonologically complex words. In addition, PWCM-P scores were positively and significantly correlated with PCC scores, receptive and expressive vocabulary size. Overall, the successful adaptation and validation of the WCM for Persian provides a reliable tool for assessing phonological development in young children and sheds light on the importance of phonological complexity in vocabulary acquisition. This research can further deepen our understanding of phonological development during early childhood and its implications for language learning.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141379953","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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