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Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children's Communicative Environments. 儿童交际环境中变异集使用的跨语言和社会经济差异。
IF 2.1 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-08-11 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100889
Celia Renata Rosemberg, Florencia Alam, Leandro Garber, Maia Julieta Migdalek, Alejandra Stein, Trevor Sie, John Bunce, Melanie Soderstrom
{"title":"Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children's Communicative Environments.","authors":"Celia Renata Rosemberg, Florencia Alam, Leandro Garber, Maia Julieta Migdalek, Alejandra Stein, Trevor Sie, John Bunce, Melanie Soderstrom","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100889","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines variation sets (VS) - structured repetitions of words in different morphosyntactic contexts - in child-directed speech (CDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) across two communities (Argentinian Spanish and North American English) and socioeconomic groups. Drawing on naturalistic recordings from 101 families, results show that VS are more frequent in CDS than in ADS. In Argentinian Spanish, they are more prevalent in middle socioeconomic status (SES) households, whereas no SES-related differences emerged in the North American sample. Across languages, they were often anchored in verbs. However, SES-related differences in lexical anchoring varied by community: in Argentinian middle-SES households, CDS includes more VS anchored in adjectives, whereas in middle-SES North American English households, noun-based VS were less frequent relative to verb-based VS. Findings indicate that linguistic typology - particularly the pro-drop versus non-pro-drop distinction - and socioeconomic context are associated with the lexical distribution and organization of repetition with variation in children's everyday linguistic environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148708072","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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Young Children Use the Discourse Marker "But" to Provide Clarifications in Everyday Conversations. 幼儿在日常对话中使用话语标记“但是”来提供澄清。
IF 2.1 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100920
Luis De la Viña, Julia Chunxiao Hu, Paul L Harris, Samuel Ronfard
{"title":"Young Children Use the Discourse Marker \"But\" to Provide Clarifications in Everyday Conversations.","authors":"Luis De la Viña, Julia Chunxiao Hu, Paul L Harris, Samuel Ronfard","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100920","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To communicate effectively, speakers must monitor and refine their utterances based on what their interlocutors know. Young children's use of the contrastive marker <i>but</i> offers a window into this ability. Using longitudinal transcripts, we examined how seven children (ages 2-5) used <i>but</i> to clarify messages in everyday conversations. We coded 1,446 utterances to identify clarifications addressing gaps in listener knowledge. Children rarely used <i>but</i> for clarification at age 2, with marked increases between ages 2 and 3. By age 3, children often used <i>but</i> to provide privileged information in response to adults' knowledge-gap cues. These findings raise questions about the role of conversational experience in the development of children's mentalising abilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148702414","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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Semantic composition and pragmatic reasoning in preschool children's interpretation of negated gradable adjectives. 学龄前儿童对否定级形容词的语义构成与语用推理。
IF 2.1 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100841
Xiaowen Zhang, Peng Zhou
{"title":"Semantic composition and pragmatic reasoning in preschool children's interpretation of negated gradable adjectives.","authors":"Xiaowen Zhang, Peng Zhou","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100841","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Absolute gradable adjectives (e.g., <i>dry</i>) and relative gradable adjectives (e.g., <i>tall</i>) interact differently with negation, with only negated absolute gradable adjectives semantically entailing their antonyms (e.g., <i>not dry</i> ⊨ <i>wet</i>). This study examined how 4- and 5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children and adults interpreted these two types of negative expressions. Results showed that all groups interpreted negated absolute gradable adjectives as entailing their antonyms. In contrast, their interpretation of negated relative gradable adjectives diverged: 5-year-olds equated such expressions with their antonyms (e.g., <i>not tall</i> ≈ <i>short</i>), while 4-year-olds and adults treated them as semantically distinct. These findings indicate that children are sensitive to the semantic differences between absolute and relative gradable adjectives and their interactions with negation. While context-independent absolute gradable adjectives consistently prompted literal interpretations of their negation, the context dependency and semantic indeterminacy of relative gradable adjectives triggered children and adults to engage in different pragmatic reasoning about the intended meanings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148686379","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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Age-Related Changes in Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Pronoun Biases 内隐因果性和结果性代词偏差的年龄相关变化
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100877
Amanda Rose Yuile, Joshua K Hartshorne
{"title":"Age-Related Changes in Implicit Causality and Consequentiality Pronoun Biases","authors":"Amanda Rose Yuile, Joshua K Hartshorne","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100877","url":null,"abstract":"When adults encounter pronouns in sentences like “Sally frightened Mary because she…,” they typically resolve the pronoun to the inferred cause of the event, a phenomenon called implicit causality. Similarly, in sentences like “Because Sally frightened Mary, she…,” pronoun interpretation often reflects the inferred consequence of the event, known as implicit consequentiality. We re-analysed data from two publicly available cross-sectional studies (Hartshorne &amp; Snedeker, 2013, Are implicit causality pronoun resolution biases consistent across languages and cultures? <jats:italic>Experimental Psychology</jats:italic> , <jats:italic>60</jats:italic> , 179; Hartshorne et al., 2015, Development of the first-mention bias. <jats:italic>Journal of Child Language</jats:italic> , <jats:italic>42</jats:italic> , 423) to explore age-related changes in implicit causality and implicit consequentiality pronoun biases. Dataset 1 included 978 native English speakers aged 9–81 years and Dataset 2 included 2,648 native English speakers aged 8–81 years. Both implicit causality and consequentiality showed significant developmental improvements from childhood into early adulthood, with implicit causality effects continuing to mature longer, suggesting that the underlying representations supporting pronoun biases continue developing into adulthood. There was no observable decline in pronoun bias, though results after 65 were highly variable.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148596173","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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Late acquisition of pronoun use in European Portuguese: Subject–object asymmetries in Portuguese-German bilingual children 欧洲葡萄牙语代词使用的后期习得：葡萄牙-德国双语儿童的主宾不对称
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100816
Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke
{"title":"Late acquisition of pronoun use in European Portuguese: Subject–object asymmetries in Portuguese-German bilingual children","authors":"Cristina Flores, Esther Rinke","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100816","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the use of subject and object pronouns in European Portuguese (EP) by Portuguese–German bilingual children living in Switzerland and their monolingual peers in Portugal. Written narratives from 61 children aged 10–12 were analysed with a focus on null versus overt subject and object realization. Results reveal a striking subject–object asymmetry in the production of the bilinguals: they overspecify subjects, producing overt pronouns more frequently in contexts of topic continuity where more null subjects are expected. Conversely, they underspecify objects, producing null object constructions and avoiding the use of clitics. We attribute the lateness of these phenomena to the complexity of overt subjects and clitic pronouns in the target system. Concerning the observed asymmetry between subjects and objects, we assume that children follow a universal referential hierarchy guiding the distribution of subject and object pronouns while at the same time disregarding discourse-pragmatic constraints.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148552773","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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Does young children’s interest in categories influence their familiar word–object recognition? 幼儿对类别的兴趣是否影响他们熟悉的词-物识别？
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100713
Sarah Eiteljoerge, Lena Ackermann, Robert Hepach, Nivedita Mani
{"title":"Does young children’s interest in categories influence their familiar word–object recognition?","authors":"Sarah Eiteljoerge, Lena Ackermann, Robert Hepach, Nivedita Mani","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100713","url":null,"abstract":"Over the first 2 years, children learn to recognize many familiar objects when hearing its label. Nonetheless, recognition is influenced by factors such as category size, frequency, and salience. Since a child’s individual interests influence word <jats:italic>learning</jats:italic> , we hypothesized that they might also modulate attention during <jats:italic>recognition.</jats:italic> Twenty-two- to thirty-nine-month-old typically developing German children’s familiar word–object recognition was measured in an intermodal preferential looking paradigm. Category interest was assessed via pupillary arousal. Additionally, interest in and familiarity with a category and category size were obtained from parents. Children looked longer to the labelled object, and target looking increased with age and relative category size, while speed of recognition increased with age. Interest had a small effect on speed of recognition but not on recognition accuracy. Thus, interests seem to influence learning and retention and play a more nuanced role in processing of already established knowledge.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148552775","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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Noun-Modifying Clause Construction in Mandarin-Speaking Children. 汉语儿童名词修饰从句的结构。
IF 2.1 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-14 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100750
Mengyao Shang, Ziyin Mai, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip
{"title":"Noun-Modifying Clause Construction in Mandarin-Speaking Children.","authors":"Mengyao Shang, Ziyin Mai, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100750","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In Mandarin, the head noun in [modifier clause-de-N] encodes not only the arguments or adjuncts of the clausal verbs (e.g. \"John/biscuits/plate\" in the event of \"John eating biscuits\") but also non-argument, non-adjunct participants extended from the clausal event (e.g. \"crumbs\" resulting from the event of \"John eating biscuits\"). This article adopts a typological, multi-factorial analytic framework of noun-modifying clause constructions (NMCCs) and proposes a developmental hierarchy of three types of NMCCs: argument > adjunct > extended. We tested the hierarchy in two studies: an analysis of 728 tokens of NMCC produced by 369 children (1;2-6;9) in naturalistic corpora and a contextualised sentence repetition task conducted with 121 children (3;0-4;11) in China. Our findings show that NMCC emerges surprisingly early around 2;0 in Mandarin children. Argument NMCCs show developmental primacy in frequency and accuracy. Adjunct and extended NMCCs are acquired at a later stage, consistent with the proposed hierarchy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438257","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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Child Phonology in a Language Revitalization Context: Evidence from Hul'q'umi'num'. 语言复兴背景下的儿童音韵学：来自Hul'q'umi'num的证据。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100804
Boey Kwan,Sonya Bird,Martina Joe,Quaysultunaat Randeana Jack,H Henny Yeung
{"title":"Child Phonology in a Language Revitalization Context: Evidence from Hul'q'umi'num'.","authors":"Boey Kwan,Sonya Bird,Martina Joe,Quaysultunaat Randeana Jack,H Henny Yeung","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100804","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous language revitalization is a multi-generational process. For example, many children now acquiring a Salish language in Western Canada are learning from caregivers who are second-language speakers. Little is known about the trajectory of children's phonological acquisition in such contexts. Here, we investigate Hul'q'umi'num', which, like many Salish languages, has far more consonants than English and much more frequent consonant clusters. Thirteen children (approximately 3-8 years) produced familiar Hul'q'umi'num' words after hearing adult caregivers' productions. Descriptive (using transcription notes) and quantitative (correlational and loglinear) analyses of the resulting 339 child words (1,179 consonants) revealed patterns that were reflective of general phonological development (e.g., highly variable fricatives, cluster simplification) and also patterns potentially specific to Hul'q'umi'num' acquisition (e.g., de-ejectivization, precocious production of plain uvular stops). Results provide valuable data about child phonology in Salish contexts, with implications for language acquisition in multilingual contexts and for within-community early language teaching.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148394046","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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Disentangling Bilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder in the Acquisition of Spanish Verbal Agreement Morphology. 西班牙语言语一致词法习得中的双语解纠结与发展性语言障碍。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100853
Patrick D Thane,Anny P Castilla-Earls,Ana T Pérez-Leroux,Alejandra Auza Benavides
{"title":"Disentangling Bilingualism and Developmental Language Disorder in the Acquisition of Spanish Verbal Agreement Morphology.","authors":"Patrick D Thane,Anny P Castilla-Earls,Ana T Pérez-Leroux,Alejandra Auza Benavides","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100853","url":null,"abstract":"116 bilingual and monolingual children aged 4;0-6;11 with developmental language disorder (DLD) and typical development (TD) completed an elicited production task examining Spanish verbal agreement in the preterit past. Children with TD produced more target-like agreement than peers with DLD. Bilinguals and monolinguals with TD did not differ significantly from one another, but monolinguals with DLD produced more target-like agreement than bilinguals with DLD. Additionally, bilinguals with TD produced more target-like agreement than monolinguals with DLD. Therefore, rates of production of verbal agreement may be useful to distinguish between DLD and TD on quantitative grounds regardless of bilingualism effects. In addition to these quantitative analyses, we document underspecified forms (the overextension of tense-marked third person singular and plural) as well as minimal bare forms in children's production across groups.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148394071","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 Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1. 俄罗斯和中国儿童课堂英语学习者的词法习得：年龄和母语的影响
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1017/S030500092500008X
Athina Ntalli, Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriëtte Hendriks, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli
{"title":"The Acquisition of Verbal Morphology by Child Classroom EFL Learners in Russia and China: The Effect of Age and L1.","authors":"Athina Ntalli, Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriëtte Hendriks, Ianthi Maria Tsimpli","doi":"10.1017/S030500092500008X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S030500092500008X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the effects of age and first language (L1) on the acquisition of verb morphology in L2 English by Chinese and Russian children learning English as a foreign language in EFL schools in Shanghai and Moscow. We tested children 5 years after they started their EFL classes and considered two groups in each country: one group started EFL classes at the age of 4 and was tested at the age of 9, while the other group started at 7 and was tested at 12. We assessed the production of 3SG-agreement and past tense using two elicited production tasks (TEGI). Our results show that later starters consistently outperform earlier starters. Unexpectedly, Chinese children showed higher accuracy with 3SG-agreement than their Russian counterparts. Finally, learners were more accurate with regular past tense than 3SG-agreement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"787-814"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143765444","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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