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Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills 精细动作技能及其与接受词汇、表达词汇和叙事语言技能的联系

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241233084

Rebecca E. Winter, Heidrun Stoeger, Sebastian P. Suggate

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On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages 论跨语言相对从句习得中主语偏好的普遍性

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241226734

Nozomi Tanaka, Elaine Lau, Alan L. F. Lee

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Quantifying events or entities?—A corpus-based study of universal quantifiers in early child English and child-directed speech 量化事件还是实体？--基于语料库的儿童早期英语和儿童引导语中通用量词研究

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231225023

Xiangjun Deng, Xiaobei Zheng, Haoyan Ge

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Little evidence for a noun bias in Tseltal spontaneous speech 在泰瑟尔塔人的自发言语中，几乎没有证据表明存在名词偏误

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231216571

Marisa Casillas, Ruthe Foushee, Juan Méndez Girón, Gilles Polian, Penelope Brown

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In the ear of the viewer: Toward an auditory dominance in early word learning 在观众的耳边早期单词学习中的听觉优势

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231217249

Mélanie Havy

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What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings 父母的真实想法是什么？家长用语的知识、信念和自我意识与在日间录音中使用家长用语的关系

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231216010

Naja Ferjan Ramírez

{"title":"What do parents really think? Knowledge, beliefs, and self-awareness of parentese in relation to its use in daylong recordings","authors":"Naja Ferjan Ramírez","doi":"10.1177/01427237231216010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237231216010","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on parental use of parentese: the acoustically exaggerated, clear, and higher-pitched speech produced by adults across cultures when they address infants. While previous research shows that parentese enhances language learning and processing, it is still unclear what drives the variability in the amount of parental parentese use. We report on the development of a survey related to parental beliefs, knowledge, and self-awareness of parentese, and the cross-validation of this survey with daylong recordings in which parental parentese was measured through observation. Forty mother–father (18 monolingual English and 22 bilingual Spanish/English) U.S. families with infants between 3 and 24 months of age participated. Scores on the parentese questionnaire showed wide variability, suggesting that many parents were unsure about the effects of parentese on infant language development, and had limited self-awareness of their own parentese use. Almost half of the parents claimed that they talked to their child ‘like an adult’, and a similar number disagreed with the claim that parentese can support language learning. Our observational assessment of parentese demonstrated that all mothers and all fathers used parentese when talking to their infants; mothers in an average of 81% and fathers in an average of 69% of child-directed segments. Importantly, maternal parentese knowledge/beliefs scores, as well as their self-reported parentese use, were significantly positively correlated with observed parentese use; these relations were not significant for fathers. These results demonstrate that maternal and paternal links between beliefs, self-awareness, and behavior may be distinct, emphasizing the importance of studying all caregivers and using observational methodologies. More broadly, a thorough understanding of the factors that shape infants’ language environments contributes to theories of language acquisition and can aid in intervention design.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"223 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139153076","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: Saiegh-Haddad, E., Laks, L., & McBride, C., Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in dialectal contexts: Psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic, and educational perspectives 书评：Saiegh-Haddad, E., Laks, L., & McBride, C., Handbook of literacy in diglossia and in dialectal contexts：心理语言学、神经语言学和教育学视角

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-12-25 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231218768

Jasmijn E. Bosch

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Six-year-olds’ comprehension of object-gapped relative clause sentences: Investigating the contribution of NP number mismatch 六岁儿童对宾语从句的理解：研究 NP 数量不匹配的作用

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231215104

Ian Morton, C. Melanie Schuele

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Towards an evidence-based approach to fostering collaborative conversation in mainstream primary classrooms: Response to commentators 以循证方法促进主流小学课堂的合作对话:对评论员的回应

2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231209805

Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Julie Dockrell, Danielle Mathews, Alexandra Sturrock, Charlotte Wilson

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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是否在其非相邻形式中持续存在?儿童汉语搭配加工的证据

2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/01427237231201580

Shang Jiang

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