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The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1.
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1017/S030500092500008X
Athina Ntalli, Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriëtte Hendriks, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
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Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000133
Ping Tang, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ivan Yuen, Katherine Demuth, Titia Benders
{"title":"Due to increased variability, the expanded vowel and tone space in Mandarin IDS does not lead to enhanced contrasts","authors":"Ping Tang, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ivan Yuen, Katherine Demuth, Titia Benders","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000133","url":null,"abstract":"Expanded vowel or tone space in IDS has traditionally been interpreted as evidence of enhanced acoustic contrasts. However, emerging evidence from various languages shows that the within-category acoustic <jats:italic>variability</jats:italic> of vowels and tones also increases in IDS, offsetting the benefit of space expansion and leading to non-enhanced, or reduced acoustic contrasts. This study re-analysed a corpus of Mandarin IDS and ADS, showing that, relative to ADS, vowels and tones in IDS display greater variability, resulting in non-enhanced contrasts. Thus, given increased variability, expanded vowel or tonal space in IDS may not necessarily equate to enhanced acoustic contrasts.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723158","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 Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000108
Nicole A. van Rootselaar, Fangfang Li, Robbin Gibb, Claudia L.R. Gonzalez
{"title":"An Investigation of Hand Use in Preschool Children: Vocabulary and Social Competence Predict Cognitive Development","authors":"Nicole A. van Rootselaar, Fangfang Li, Robbin Gibb, Claudia L.R. Gonzalez","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000108","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research indicates that strong right-hand preference predicts performance in other skills, such as vocabulary size and executive function (EF). The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between these functions, as well as social competence (SC), in a sample of preschool children. We used parent questionnaires and/or tabletop assessments to measure hand preference, fine motor skills, language, EF, and SC in 81 three- to five-year-old children. The results strengthened the evidence of a connection between right-hand use for pointing and vocabulary performance but indicated that right-hand use was not related to EF or SC. Further, the findings revealed a reciprocal connection between vocabulary and SC as well as EF and SC, but not vocabulary and EF. We discuss the implications of these connections for early childhood development.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723160","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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Language Development Between 30 and 48 Months in Monolingual Slovenian-Speaking Children: A Study Using the Slovenian Adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory CDI–III
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000121
Urška Fekonja, Kaja Hacin-Beyazoglu, Ljubica Marjanovič-Umek
{"title":"Language Development Between 30 and 48 Months in Monolingual Slovenian-Speaking Children: A Study Using the Slovenian Adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory CDI–III","authors":"Urška Fekonja, Kaja Hacin-Beyazoglu, Ljubica Marjanovič-Umek","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The main aim of this study, which presents the Slovenian adaptation of the Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory CDI–III, was to investigate the characteristics of language development in monolingual Slovenian-speaking children aged 30–48 months. In addition, we examined the relationships between different measures of child language assessed by the CDI–III, namely vocabulary, grammar and metalanguage. The sample comprised 301 children whose language was assessed by their parents using the Slovenian version of the CDI–III. The results indicate that language development at this age continues to progress relatively quickly, particularly in terms of children’s metalinguistic abilities, although there are large individual differences in language ability between children of the same age. The findings also indicate that some of the pre-existing relationships established between the different domains of infant and toddler language ability persist into early childhood, with vocabulary emerging as an important predictor of children’s grammar.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712924","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 language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000078
Julia Hauss, Jennifer Barbosa, Paul Muentener, Laura Lakusta
{"title":"The language of mechanical support in children: Is it “Sticking,” “Hanging,” or simply “On”?","authors":"Julia Hauss, Jennifer Barbosa, Paul Muentener, Laura Lakusta","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do children learn the language-to-concept mappings within the domain of Mechanical Support – a spatial domain involving varied and complex force-dynamic relations between objects based on specific mechanisms (stickiness, clips, etc.)? We explore how four- and six-year-olds, and adults encode dynamic events and static configurations of Mechanical Support via attachment (picture put on a door). Participants viewed spatial configurations (Experiment 1 – in dynamic events or Experiment 2 – in static states) and were then prompted with the question, “Can you tell me what my sister did with my toy?” Children and adults used lexical verbs, and the visibility of the mechanism influenced the type of verb used. Also, whereas children preferentially used Orientation Verbs (e.g., “hang”), adults preferentially used Verbs of Attaching (e.g., “tape,” “stick”). Our findings shed light on how children acquire mechanical support language and the linguistic and cognitive constraints involved.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143635775","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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Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925000066
Rosanne Abrahamse, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Rebecca Holt, Katherine Demuth, Titia Benders
{"title":"Real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing preschoolers: Effects of phonological competition","authors":"Rosanne Abrahamse, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Rebecca Holt, Katherine Demuth, Titia Benders","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925000066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925000066","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how phonological competition affects real-time spoken word recognition in deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) preschoolers compared to peers with hearing in the normal range (NH). Three-to-six-year olds (27 with NH, 18 DHH, including uni- and bilateral hearing losses) were instructed to look at pictures that corresponded to words alongside a phonological competitor (e.g., /<jats:italic>bin-pin</jats:italic>/) vs. an unrelated distractor (e.g., /<jats:italic>toy-bed</jats:italic>/). Phonological competitors contrasted in either voicing or place of articulation (PoA), in the onset or coda of the word. Relative to peers with NH, DHH preschoolers showed reduced looks to target in reaction to the spoken words specifically when competition was present. DHH preschoolers may thus, as a group, experience increased phonological competition during word recognition. There was no evidence that phonological properties (voicing vs. PoA, or onset vs. coda) differentially impacted word recognition.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143546343","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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Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children. 相同的名称，不同的表征水平？学龄前儿童情绪词理解能力的间接家长报告测量与直接替代强迫选择测量的不一致。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000923000727
Ida Torp Roepstorff, Julien Mayor, Sophie S Havighurst, Natalia Kartushina
{"title":"Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children.","authors":"Ida Torp Roepstorff, Julien Mayor, Sophie S Havighurst, Natalia Kartushina","doi":"10.1017/S0305000923000727","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000923000727","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study assessed the relationship between preschoolers' directly and indirectly assessed emotion word comprehension. Forty-nine two-to-five-year-old Norwegian children were assessed in a tablet-based 4-alternative forced choice (AFC) task on their comprehension of six basic and six complex emotions using facial expression photographs. Parents reported emotion word comprehension and production of the same words. Parent-reported emotion word production interacted with age to predict preschoolers' performance, with a parent-child alignment only observed for older children. Parent-reported word comprehension did not significantly predict accuracy. The results suggest that, in preschoolers, direct and indirect assessments might address distinct representational levels of emotion word comprehension.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"448-463"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703729","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 impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on multilingual families in the Netherlands. Covid-19 大流行对荷兰多语言家庭的影响。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000923000715
Sharon Unsworth, Marieke VAN DEN Akker, Caya VAN Dijk
{"title":"The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on multilingual families in the Netherlands.","authors":"Sharon Unsworth, Marieke VAN DEN Akker, Caya VAN Dijk","doi":"10.1017/S0305000923000715","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000923000715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, public life in many countries ground to a halt in early 2020. The aims of this study were (i) to uncover the language practices of multilingual families during the pandemic, in general and especially regarding homeschooling; and (ii) to determine to what extent the changes in circumstance caused by the pandemic impacted children's language use and proficiency, and family well-being. Parents from 587 families completed an online survey for 1051 children. Data were analysed using ordinal logistic regression. Our results showed that for most children, there were no changes in language use, proficiency or well-being. When there were changes, these were more likely for (families with) preschool children. Using the heritage language for homeschooling (some or all of the time) did not have a negative impact on Dutch language proficiency, but it did have a positive impact on the heritage language proficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"312-333"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139492434","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 acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense. 日语数字分类器语义的获得：无稽之谈的方法论价值。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000923000661
Maki Kubota, Yuko Matsuoka, Jason Rothman
{"title":"The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense.","authors":"Maki Kubota, Yuko Matsuoka, Jason Rothman","doi":"10.1017/S0305000923000661","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000923000661","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the acquisition of numeral classifiers in 120 monolingual Japanese children. Previous research has argued that the complex semantic system underlying classifiers is late acquired. Thus, we set out to determine the age at which Japanese children are able to extend the semantic properties of classifiers to novel items/situations. Participants completed a comprehension task with a mouse-tracking extension and a production task with nonce and familiar items. While the comprehension results showed ceiling effects on familiar and nonce items, age significantly modulated a difference in accuracy between familiar and nonce items in the production task. The findings suggest that the acquisition of the underlying semantic system is acquired much earlier than previously argued. Previously attested issues with Japanese classifier production in young(er) children are more likely to reflect accessing difficulties than indexing the underlying grammatical competence of the classifier system.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"218-243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139565012","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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Impact of talker variability on language development in two-year-olds. 说话者的多变性对两岁幼儿语言发展的影响。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-11 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000084
Jing Zhao, Tessei Kobayashi, Etsuko Haryu
{"title":"Impact of talker variability on language development in two-year-olds.","authors":"Jing Zhao, Tessei Kobayashi, Etsuko Haryu","doi":"10.1017/S0305000924000084","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S0305000924000084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research investigated the impact of the number of talkers with whom children engage in daily conversation on their language development. Two surveys were conducted in 2020, targeting two-year-olds growing up in Japanese monolingual families. Caregivers reported the number of talkers in three age groups and children's productive vocabulary via questionnaires. The results demonstrated significant effects of variability in talkers in fifth grade or above in Study 1 (<i>N</i> = 50; male = 23; <i>r</i> = .372) and in adult talkers in Study 2 (<i>N</i> = 175; non-nursery going; male = 76; <i>r</i> = .184) on children's vocabulary development, after controlling for language exposure time and demographic variables. Possible mediating factors are discussed. This research extends previous findings from immigrant bilingual children to monolingual speakers in Japan, suggesting the potential contribution of available talkers other than caregivers in conversational environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"425-447"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140094917","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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