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Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. 测试婴儿引导语言的偏好与词汇发展之间的关系：多实验室研究

IF 1.7 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000254

Melanie Soderstrom, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Luis E Muñoz, Agata Bochynska, Janet F Werker, Barbora Skarabela, Amanda Seidl, Yana Ryjova, Jennifer L Rennels, Christine E Potter, Markus Paulus, Mitsuhiko Ota, Nonah M Olesen, Karli M Nave, Julien Mayor, Alia Martin, Lauren C Machon, Casey Lew-Williams, Eon-Suk Ko, Hyunji Kim, Natalia Kartushina, Marina Kammermeier, Andrew Jessop, Jessica F Hay, Naomi Havron, Erin E Hannon, J Kiley Hamlin, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Anja Gampe, Tom Fritzsche, Michael C Frank, Samantha Durrant, Catherine Davies, Cara Cashon, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Veronica Boyce, Alexis K Black, Christina Bergmann, Laura Anderson, Mohammed K Alshakhori, Ali H Al-Hoorie, Angeline S M Tsui

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The acquisition of plain–emphatic consonant contrasts by Arabic-speaking children: An acoustic study 说阿拉伯语的儿童习得普通-重读辅音对比：一项声学研究

IF 2.2 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925100214

Anwar Alkhudidi, Rebecca Holt, Tuende Szalay, Katherine Demuth, Titia Benders

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Preferential use of full glottal stops in vowel-initial glottalization in child speech: Evidence from novel words. 儿童语音中元音初始化时优先使用全喉塞音：来自新词的证据

IF 1.7 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-03 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000242

Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura

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Living the first years in a pandemic: children's linguistic development and related factors in and out of the COVID-19 lockdowns. 在大流行病中度过最初几年：COVID-19 封锁区内外儿童的语言发展及相关因素。

IF 1.7 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000924000412

Irene Cadime, Ana Lúcia Santos, Iolanda Ribeiro, Fernanda Leopoldina Viana, María Teresa Martín-Aragoneses

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Mandarin-learning toddlers’ sensitivity to noun phrase word order: An investigation of an early bias for language universals 初学汉语幼儿对名词短语语序的敏感性：早期语言共相偏见的研究

IF 2.2 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925100226

Lean Luo, Xiaolu Yang, Stella Christie, Rushen Shi

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Home Literacy Practices and Oral Language Development of Young Immigrant Dual Language Learners: Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic 双语青年移民家庭读写实践与口语发展：新冠疫情前与期间

IF 2.2 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925100147

Emily Mak, Jade Lee, Qing Zhou, Yuuko Uchikoshi

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Infants discover English suffixes allomorph by allomorph. 婴儿是一个接一个地发现英语后缀的。

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000925100160

Kevin Liang, Megha Sundara

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Feedback type matters in children's word learning. 反馈类型在儿童的单词学习中很重要。

IF 1.7 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000925100111

Sara Ferman, Ilan Roziner, Yael Zaltz

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Simulating procedural discovery in early language acquisition: Domain-general cognition with contextual learning 模拟早期语言习得中的程序发现：领域认知与语境学习

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Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925100159

Yang Ji, Jacolien van Rij, Niels Taatgen

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Does hearing “and” help children understand “or”? Insights into scales and relevance from the acquisition of disjunction in child Romanian “听”和“能帮助孩子理解”或“？”儿童罗马尼亚语分离习得的尺度与相关性研究

IF 2.2 2区文学

Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000925100068

Adina Camelia Bleotu, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Alexandre Cremers, Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Anton Benz, Lyn Tieu

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