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Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L2
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000394
Freideriki Tselekidou, Elizabeth Stadtmiller, Assunta Süss, Katrin Lindner, Natalia Gagarina
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Vocabulary trajectories in German-speaking children from 18 months to three years: a growth mixture model
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000503
Eveline Pinstock, Satyam Antonio Schramm
{"title":"Vocabulary trajectories in German-speaking children from 18 months to three years: a growth mixture model","authors":"Eveline Pinstock, Satyam Antonio Schramm","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Children acquire vocabulary at different growth rates. The aim of this study was to identify subgroups of different vocabulary trajectories in a community sample of L1 German-speaking children aged 1;6 to 3;0 to enlarge the understanding of vocabulary trajectories. Parents filled out vocabulary checklists at four measurement times, each six months apart. Growth mixture modelling was used to naturally determine latent classes of observed vocabulary growth curve patterns. Six distinct trajectories of vocabulary growth were identified and characterised. Children’s (<span>N</span>=198) vocabulary abilities were divided into the following subgroups: “far above average” (2.0%), “above average” (6.6%), “typical” (70.2%), “below average” (14.1%), “early below average\" but caught up with their peers over time (5.6%), and “far below average” (1.5%). Socioeconomic status differed significantly between subgroups.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142849094","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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Interest, home environment, and young Chinese children's development of English as a second/foreign language. 兴趣、家庭环境与中国幼儿英语作为第二语言/外语的发展。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000618
Xinyi Zhang, Carrie Lau
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Navajo Verbs in Child Speech 儿童口语中的纳瓦霍动词
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000229
Melvatha R. Chee
{"title":"Navajo Verbs in Child Speech","authors":"Melvatha R. Chee","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000229","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates Navajo verbs produced by four children, ages 4;07 to 11;02, during conversations with their caretakers. Analyses of 1600 verbs demonstrate that the bisyllabic verb form, consisting of a verb stem and a portion of the prefix string, is the most common pattern produced by the children. This indicates that Navajo-speaking children use meaningful units of verbal morphology that do not necessarily adhere to the linguistic boundaries normally ascribed to the Navajo verb complex. Further, the verbs are primarily intransitive and third-person singular constructions, which are minimally inflected. It is argued that these minimally-inflected verb forms are frequent not just because they are simpler, but also because they are highly productive as main verbs and are used to create phrasal verbs and nouns. These findings contribute to our general understanding of language development and to the growing body of research investigating children’s acquisition of endangered Indigenous languages.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825122","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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Maternal underestimations and overestimations of their infants’ word comprehension: effects on mothers’ verbal input and infants’ receptive vocabulary 母亲低估和高估婴儿的词语理解能力：对母亲语言输入和婴儿接受词汇量的影响
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000576
Sura Ertaş, Aylin C. Küntay, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes
{"title":"Maternal underestimations and overestimations of their infants’ word comprehension: effects on mothers’ verbal input and infants’ receptive vocabulary","authors":"Sura Ertaş, Aylin C. Küntay, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000576","url":null,"abstract":"Infants’ language is often measured indirectly via parent reports, but mothers may underestimate or overestimate their infants’ word comprehension. The current study examined estimations of mothers from diverse educational backgrounds regarding their infants’ word comprehension and how these estimations are associated with their verbal input and infants’ receptive vocabulary at 14 months. We compared 34 infants’ looking-while-listening (LWL) performances with the mothers’ Turkish Communicative Development Inventory (TCDI) reports to calculate the mothers’ overestimation and underestimation. During free-play sessions, we assessed the mothers’ number of words, number of clauses, lexical diversity, and linguistic complexity. We found that mothers have overestimations and underestimations regardless of their educational background. Crucially, mothers’ only overestimations were positively associated with their number of words and lexical diversity. Mothers’ verbal input was not related to infants’ receptive vocabulary scores. The findings suggest that mothers’ input might be aligned with their estimations of their infants’ language capabilities, which might not reflect the infants’ true performance.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825121","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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An empirical study on native Mandarin-speaking children’s metonymy comprehension development
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000539
Songqiao Xie, Chunyan He
{"title":"An empirical study on native Mandarin-speaking children’s metonymy comprehension development","authors":"Songqiao Xie, Chunyan He","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000539","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates Mandarin-speaking children’s (age 3–7) comprehension development of novel and conventional metonymy, combining online and offline methods. Both online and offline data show significantly better performances from the oldest group (6-to-7-year-old) and a delayed acquisition of conventional metonymy compared with novel metonymy. However, part of offline data shows no significant difference between adjacent age groups, while the eye-tracking data show a chronological development from age 3–7. Furthermore, in offline tasks, the three-year-old group features a high choice randomness and the four-to-five-year-olds show the longest reaction time. Therefore, we argue that, not only age but also metonymy type can influence metonymy acquisition, and that a lack of socio-cultural experience can be a source of acquisition difficulty for children under six. Methodologically speaking, we believe that online methods should not be considered superior to offline ones as they investigate different aspects of implicit and explicit language comprehension.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816135","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 role of early temperament on oral language development of New Zealand children speaking Mandarin or Cantonese
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000631
Yuxin Zhang, Elaine Ballard, Taiying Lee, Henrietta Lee, Johanna Schmidt, Elaine Reese
{"title":"The role of early temperament on oral language development of New Zealand children speaking Mandarin or Cantonese","authors":"Yuxin Zhang, Elaine Ballard, Taiying Lee, Henrietta Lee, Johanna Schmidt, Elaine Reese","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000631","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated the role of temperament in oral language development in over 200 Mandarin and Cantonese speakers in the <span>Growing Up in New Zealand</span> pre-birth longitudinal cohort study. Mothers assessed infant temperament at nine months using a five-factor Infant Behaviour Questionnaire-Revised Very Short Form. They also reported on children’s vocabulary and word combinations at age two using adapted MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory short forms. Regression analyses were employed to examine unique links between infant temperament and language, respectively, controlling for demographic factors. Fear was associated with larger English vocabularies for English-Mandarin speakers and larger Cantonese vocabularies for Cantonese speakers. Orienting capacity was associated with more advanced word combinations for Mandarin speakers, whereas negative emotionality was associated with less advanced word combinations for Cantonese speakers. Positive affect/surgency was associated with more advanced word combinations for English-Cantonese speakers. This study revealed predictive patterns of infant temperament across Chinese-speaking children’s multiple languages.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816140","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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Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000515
Kendall Wall, Aisling Mulvihill, Natasha Matthews, Paul E. Dux, Annemaree Carroll
{"title":"Maternal parenting style and self-regulatory private speech content use in preschool children","authors":"Kendall Wall, Aisling Mulvihill, Natasha Matthews, Paul E. Dux, Annemaree Carroll","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000515","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Private speech is a tool through which children self-regulate. The regulatory content of children’s overt private speech is associated with response to task difficulty and task performance. Parenting is proposed to play a role in the development of private speech as co-regulatory interactions become represented by the child as private speech to regulate thinking and behaviour. This study investigated the relationship between maternal parenting style and the spontaneous regulatory content of private speech in 3- to 5-year-old children (<span>N</span> = 70) during a problem-solving Duplo construction task. Sixty-six children used intelligible private speech which was coded according to its functional self-regulatory content (i.e., forethought, performance, and self-reflective). Mothers completed the Australian version of the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire. Results revealed a significant positive association between maternal authoritative parenting and the frequency and proportion of children’s forethought type (i.e., planning and self-motivational) utterances during the construction task. There were no significant associations between maternal parenting style and other private speech content subtypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816139","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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Is home environment predictive of early grammar development?
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000527
Michelle Jennifer White, Frenette Southwood
{"title":"Is home environment predictive of early grammar development?","authors":"Michelle Jennifer White, Frenette Southwood","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000527","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research shows that children’s home environment (e.g., the composition of their household and the resources available in it) has an impact on children’s language development. However, this research has mostly been conducted among English speakers from the minority world and has often only considered vocabulary size. This exploratory study investigated whether home environment factors are predictive of grammar development in Afrikaans-speaking (<span>n</span> = 117) and English-speaking (<span>n</span> = 102) toddlers in South Africa. Moreover, potential differences between these two language groups were explored. Results showed that home environment factors pertaining to family stability predicted two of the three grammar scores, namely total grammar and complex phrases. Cluster analysis showed distinct patterns of home environment factors between Afrikaans and English-speaking households, illustrating the importance of measuring these factors even across samples from the same country. This study shows that children’s home environment is an interconnected system and cautions against oversimplified single-factor approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816136","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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Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000924000473
Paul Ibbotson, Stefan Hartmann, Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick
{"title":"Frequency, redundancy, and context in bilingual acquisition","authors":"Paul Ibbotson, Stefan Hartmann, Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick","doi":"10.1017/s0305000924000473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000924000473","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report findings from a corpus-based investigation of three young children growing up in German-English bilingual environments (<span>M</span> = 3;0, Range = 2;3–3;11). Based on 2,146,179 single words and two-word combinations in naturalistic child speech (CS) and child-directed speech (CDS), we assessed the degree to which the frequency distribution of CDS predicted CS usage over time, and systematically identified CS that was over- or underrepresented in the corpus with respect to matched CDS baselines. Results showed that CDS explained 61% of the variance in CS single-word use and 19.3% of the variance in two-word combinations. Furthermore, the bilingual nature of the over or -underrepresented CS was partially attributable to factors beyond the corpus statistics, namely individual differences between children in their bilingual learning environment. In two out of the three children, overrepresented two-word combinations contained higher levels of syntactic slot redundancy than underrepresented CS. These results are discussed with respect to the role that redundancy plays in producing semiformulaic slot-and-frame patterns in CS.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810085","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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