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Examining Dutch children's vocabularies across infancy and toddlerhood: Demographic effects are age-specific and task-specific. 研究荷兰儿童在婴儿期和学步期的词汇量：人口统计学效应具有年龄特异性和任务特异性。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000199

Anika van der Klis, Caroline Junge, Frans Adriaans, René Kager

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Assessing two methods of webcam-based eye-tracking for child language research. 评估用于儿童语言研究的两种网络摄像头眼动跟踪方法。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000175

Margaret Kandel, Jesse Snedeker

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Examining the dimensionality of vocabulary in English as a second language in Chinese children. 研究中国儿童英语作为第二语言的词汇维度。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000096

Qiuzhi Xie, Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung

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Comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: How children are led down the event-semantic kindergarten-path. 理解包含时间连接词的复杂句子：儿童如何被引入事件-语义幼儿园之路。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-16 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000205

Christos Makrodimitris, Petra Schulz

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Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers. 使语言发展研究范式适应在线测试：来自幼儿偏好观察、单词学习和词汇评估的数据。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000035

Delphine K-L Nguyen, Nadine Fitzpatrick, Caroline Floccia

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Children's reliance on pointing and mutual exclusivity in word-referent mapping: The role of vocabulary and language exposure. 儿童在单词-参照物映射中对指向性和互斥性的依赖：词汇量和语言接触的作用。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000461

Myrna Falkeisen, Josje Verhagen

{"title":"Children's reliance on pointing and mutual exclusivity in word-referent mapping: The role of vocabulary and language exposure.","authors":"Myrna Falkeisen, Josje Verhagen","doi":"10.1017/S0305000924000461","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000924000461","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored monolingual and multilingual two- to five-year-olds' reliance on a non-verbal and a verbal cue during word-referent mapping, in relation to vocabulary knowledge and, for the multilinguals, Dutch language exposure. Ninety monolingual and sixty-seven multilingual children performed a referential conflict experiment that pitted a non-verbal (pointing) cue and a verbal (mutual exclusivity) cue. Mixed-effect regressions showed no main effects of vocabulary and language exposure. An interaction between vocabulary and group showed that lower vocabulary scores were associated with a stronger reliance on pointing over mutual exclusivity for multilinguals (but not monolinguals). Furthermore, an interaction between vocabulary, language exposure, and cue word (novel vs. familiar label) indicated that multilinguals with lower exposure and lower vocabulary showed a stronger reliance on pointing over mutual exclusivity when a novel rather than familiar word was used. These findings suggest that multilingual and monolingual children go through different trajectories when learning to map words to referents.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"648-674"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142630621","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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Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality. 单语和双语儿童派生形态知识的发展：模态和词性的影响。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000126

Tamar Michaly, Anat Prior

{"title":"Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality.","authors":"Tamar Michaly, Anat Prior","doi":"10.1017/S0305000924000126","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000924000126","url":null,"abstract":"This study mapped the trajectory of developing derivational morphological knowledge in Hebrew monolingual and Russian-Hebrew bilingual children. We investigated 2nd and 4th graders, using a two-by-two structure along the dimensions of modality (comprehension, production) and type of word (real-word, pseudo-word). Performance in the morphological analogies comprehension tasks improved with grade, and monolingual and bilingual children performed equally well. A different pattern was evident in production tasks. In real-word production, monolingual children were more accurate than bilingual children, but this group difference narrowed with age. In pseudo-word production, monolingual children used more morphological elements than bilingual children, and there was also a tendency towards group differences narrowing with age. Detailed error analyses across all tasks revealed that monolingual children recruited more morphological elements than bilingual children. We present implications for assessment of morphological knowledge, and suggest that morphological intervention is a promising avenue for promoting bilingual children's success.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"532-557"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140852393","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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Emergent bilingual children during the silent period: A scoping review of their communication strategies and classroom environments. 沉默期的新兴双语儿童：对他们的交流策略和课堂环境进行的范围审查。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000151

Pui Fong Kan, Morgan Jones, Christina Meyers-Denman, Natalya Sparks

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Modeling monolingual and bilingual children’s language attitudes towards variation in metropolitan France 在法国大都市模拟单语和双语儿童对变异的语言态度

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000169

Anna Ghimenton, Christophe Coupé, Nelly Bonhomme, Jinke Song, Vincent Arnaud

{"title":"Modeling monolingual and bilingual children’s language attitudes towards variation in metropolitan France","authors":"Anna Ghimenton, Christophe Coupé, Nelly Bonhomme, Jinke Song, Vincent Arnaud","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000169","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates four factors (age, sex, SES, and bilingualism) influencing children’s language attitude (LA) development. We examine LAs in monolingual (N = 46) and bilingual (N = 71) children (59–143 months) living in France using a matched guise experiment where the children evaluated normative and non-normative variants of five linguistic constructions in French. Using a mixed-effects model, we show that children’s preferences for normative variants increase with age, and each linguistic construction documented is subject to different attitudinal timeframes. The probabilities of preferring the normative variants are significantly higher for monolingual girls than for bilingual girls. Whilst lower-class and upper-class children’s LAs are similar, low-to-middle-class children’s responses are more random, which may illustrate the potential effects of linguistic insecurity. We discuss how the children’s construction of the sociocognitive representations of linguistic variation could be explained by considering children’s language exposure and experiences of socialisation.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143789524","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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Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics. 幼儿期的性别语音发展：元音和辅音声学纵向研究的证据。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1017/S030500092500011X

Eugene Wong, Kiana Koeppe, Margaret Cychosz, Benjamin Munson

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