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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。
IF 2.1 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1017/S030500092500011X
Eugene Wong, Kiana Koeppe, Margaret Cychosz, Benjamin Munson
{"title":"Gendered speech development in early childhood: Evidence from a longitudinal study of vowel and consonant acoustics.","authors":"Eugene Wong, Kiana Koeppe, Margaret Cychosz, Benjamin Munson","doi":"10.1017/S030500092500011X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S030500092500011X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adults rate the speech of children assigned male at birth (AMAB) and assigned female at birth (AFAB) as young as 2.5 years of age differently on a scale of <i>definitely a boy</i> to <i>definitely a girl</i> (Munson et al., 2022), despite the lack of consistent sex dimorphism in children's speech production mechanisms. This study used longitudinal data to examine the acoustic differences between AMAB and AFAB children and the association between the acoustic measures and perceived gender ratings of children's speech. We found differences between AMAB and AFAB children in two acoustic parameters that mark gender in adult speech: the spectral centroid of /s/ and the overall scaling of resonant frequencies in vowels. These results demonstrate that children as young as 3 years old speak in ways that reflect their sex assigned at birth. We interpret this as evidence that children manipulate their speech apparatus volitionally to mark gender through speech.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"759-786"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13320588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143781685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Perceptual asymmetries in the development of lexical tone perception in Thai-learning children. 泰语学习儿童词汇语调知觉发展中的知觉不对称。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100737
Antonia Götz,Suparuthai Sumonwiriya,Benjawa Kasisopa,Ratree Wayland,Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin,Denis Burnham
{"title":"Perceptual asymmetries in the development of lexical tone perception in Thai-learning children.","authors":"Antonia Götz,Suparuthai Sumonwiriya,Benjawa Kasisopa,Ratree Wayland,Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin,Denis Burnham","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100737","url":null,"abstract":"Discrimination of vowel and consonant pairs is influenced by their order, known as perceptual asymmetry, and recent research suggests a similar effect for lexical tones. This study tested whether discrimination of two consecutive tones is easier when a dynamic contour tone (e.g., rising/falling) precedes a static-level tone (e.g., low/high) than vice versa. Thai-speaking children aged 4, 6, and 8 years and adults completed an AX task with four tone pairs in dynamic-static and static-dynamic orders. Adults showed no perceptual asymmetry, possibly due to ceiling effects. However, children in all three age groups discriminated dynamic-static pairs better than static-dynamic pairs. Although tone discrimination improved across age groups, the magnitude of the dynamic-static over static-dynamic advantage remained stable. These findings reveal a dynamic-static bias in tone perception that emerges before age four and remains stable into the school years. Implications for segmental asymmetries and theories of speech perception are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"30 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148342096","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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To bind or not to bind: Individual differences in pronominal processing among adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers. 绑定或不绑定：青少年中英传统人称代词加工的个体差异。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100828
Jiuzhou Hao,Vincent DeLuca,Jason Rothman
{"title":"To bind or not to bind: Individual differences in pronominal processing among adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers.","authors":"Jiuzhou Hao,Vincent DeLuca,Jason Rothman","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100828","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how late adolescent Mandarin-English heritage speakers (HSs) process different types of Mandarin pronouns in real time and how individual differences in cognitive and experiential factors modulate this process. Using a web-based visual world eye-tracking paradigm, we tested the interpretation of pronominals (ta), simplex reflexives (ziji), and complex reflexives (taziji), which differ in their reliance on narrow syntax versus syntax-discourse-semantic integration. At the group level, taziji was interpreted locally, while ziji and ta were interpreted as referring to long-distance (LD) antecedents. Working memory and inhibition modulated the processing of ziji and ta, whereas only current heritage language (HL) exposure influenced the processing of taziji. These findings indicate that domain-general cognitive resources are recruited during the resolution of pronouns involving LD and interface-level dependencies, while narrow syntactic structures are more sensitive to variation in language exposure. The results point to structural asymmetries in how cognitive and experiential factors affect real-time HL pronoun resolution.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"72 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148342098","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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Influence of Visual Context Stability on Word Learning in Fourteen- and Nineteen-Month-Old Children. 视觉语境稳定性对14、19个月儿童词汇学习的影响。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100725
Dahliane Labertoniere,Géraldine Jean-Charles,Katrin Skoruppa
{"title":"Influence of Visual Context Stability on Word Learning in Fourteen- and Nineteen-Month-Old Children.","authors":"Dahliane Labertoniere,Géraldine Jean-Charles,Katrin Skoruppa","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100725","url":null,"abstract":"When hearing a label for a visible object, toddlers are also exposed to the visual context surrounding it. Our study investigates the role of the variability of this context during fast mapping in young children. Specifically, we compare word learning in French-learning fourteen- and nineteen-month-olds (N = 41) using visually distinct and identical object pictures in a fast mapping eye-tracking paradigm. The results show a learning effect only in the visually distinct condition. This suggests that toddlers benefit from a variability in visual context during word learning in this crucial developmental period of early lexical acquisition.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148322627","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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Revisiting the Acquisition of Conditionals: Children's and Adults' Expression of Hypothetical Thought. 再看条件句的习得：儿童和成人的假设思维表达。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100762
Myrto Grigoroglou,Patricia A Ganea
{"title":"Revisiting the Acquisition of Conditionals: Children's and Adults' Expression of Hypothetical Thought.","authors":"Myrto Grigoroglou,Patricia A Ganea","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100762","url":null,"abstract":"Children produce conditional if-clauses later than other complex constructions, but the source of this delay is debated. On the conceptual complexity explanation, children acquire if-clauses later than other morphosyntactically similar constructions because they are cognitively more complex. On the pragmatic overlap explanation, children produce if-clauses infrequently because other, simpler constructions can convey similar conditional meanings. We tested the two explanations experimentally by eliciting hypothetical language in 3- to 6-year-old children and adults. Children and adults expressed hypotheticality through a variety of grammatical constructions, beyond if-clauses, in accordance with the pragmatic overlap explanation. Across age groups, if-clauses were not delayed compared to other similar constructions, against the conceptual complexity prediction. Still, the data showed important developmental differences: 3- and 4-year-old children rarely expressed conditional meanings, whereas 5- and 6-year-olds were adult-like. These findings suggest that expressing hypothetical thought develops substantially during the preschool years through interacting cognitive, pragmatic, and linguistic factors.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148322628","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 effect of distributional information on the categorization of unaccusativity. 分布信息对非宾格性分类的影响。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100531
Kaiying Kevin Lin,Peter Washington,Kamil Ud Deen
{"title":"The effect of distributional information on the categorization of unaccusativity.","authors":"Kaiying Kevin Lin,Peter Washington,Kamil Ud Deen","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100531","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate how Mandarin-speaking children categorize novel intransitive verbs as unergative and unaccusative using distributional information in language input. Using a Word2vec model, we examined whether distributional cues in sentences influence the categorization of novel verbs. Our results indicated that the distributional representations of novel verbs in some sentence types exhibited closer similarities to real unergatives, and the others closer to real unaccusatives, showing a distinct effect of distributional cues on verb categorization. Subsequently, we examined children's sensitivity to the distributional information in a few sentence types. The results demonstrated that distributional cues in these sentence types were useful for children to categorize novel verbs, since the categorization linked to verb meanings was reinforced by sentence types in which novel verbs occur. These findings may explain atypical behaviours of some Mandarin formal and double-syllable verbs that previous theoretical frameworks have found challenging to explain.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"32 1","pages":"1-35"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148313676","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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Examining the Robustness and Generalizability of the Shape Bias: A Meta-Analysis. 检验形状偏差的稳健性和普遍性：一项荟萃分析。
IF 2.2 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1017/s0305000926100749
Samah Abdelrahim,Michael Frank
{"title":"Examining the Robustness and Generalizability of the Shape Bias: A Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Samah Abdelrahim,Michael Frank","doi":"10.1017/s0305000926100749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000926100749","url":null,"abstract":"The \"shape bias\" - the tendency to generalize new nouns by their shape rather than features like colour or texture - is considered a cornerstone of early noun learning. However, the magnitude, development, and cross-cultural generality of this bias remain debated. We conducted a pre-registered meta-analysis and meta-regression of 71 studies to synthesize the evidence base. Our analysis revealed a robust overall effect, confirming the existence of a shape bias. However, this effect was characterized by extreme between-study heterogeneity (I2 = 0.95). Critically, meta-regression analyses failed to support hypothesized developmental changes, with a constant model across ages providing the most parsimonious fit. The literature is overwhelmingly dominated by studies of English-speaking children, preventing meaningful tests of cross-linguistic or cross-cultural variation. Diagnostic tests were also consistent with the possibility of publication bias, though these patterns can also arise from methodological heterogeneity and should be interpreted with caution. Together, these findings indicate that procedural variation, and potentially publication bias, more than currently testable theoretical moderators, account for the variability in the literature, severely limiting the ability to distinguish between theories of the shape bias's origins.","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148299014","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 Comprehension of Conjunction and Disjunction by Toddlers. 幼儿对连词和分离词的理解。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-06-09 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100671
David J Lobina, Hermann Sergio Bulf, Maria Teresa Guasti
{"title":"The Comprehension of Conjunction and Disjunction by Toddlers.","authors":"David J Lobina, Hermann Sergio Bulf, Maria Teresa Guasti","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on the acquisition of language's logical connectives has generally focused on production studies (spontaneous or elicited). According to such data, parts of the logical vocabulary - in particular, conjunction and disjunction - are acquired relatively late, with adult-like production evident from age 3 for conjunction and from age 6 for disjunction. In this study, we employed the intermodal preferential looking paradigm to target the comprehension abilities of Italian-speaking toddlers of an average age of 28 months, a younger cohort than in previous studies. We collected eye-fixation data as toddlers inspected two images whilst listening to conjunctive and disjunctive sentences and analysed these data with a <i>generalised additive model</i>, obtaining a sequential record of the online, implicit processing of the sentences. The results indicate that toddlers discriminate between conjunction and disjunction and favour an inclusive reading of disjunction, furthermore providing evidence for the earliest comprehension of the logical connectives in ontogeny.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148206693","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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Accommodation or Adaptation? How L2 Reading Proficiency Affects Reading Strategies in EFL Learners with and without Dyslexia. 适应还是适应？二语阅读能力对英语学习者阅读策略的影响。
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-05-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100701
Ilaria Venagli, Theodoros Marinis, Chiara Melloni, Marie Lallier, Tanja Kupisch
{"title":"Accommodation or Adaptation? How L2 Reading Proficiency Affects Reading Strategies in EFL Learners with and without Dyslexia.","authors":"Ilaria Venagli, Theodoros Marinis, Chiara Melloni, Marie Lallier, Tanja Kupisch","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100701","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates how reading proficiency in an orthographically opaque foreign language (L2 English) modulates word recognition and decoding strategies of Italian adolescents with and without developmental dyslexia (DD), whose native language orthography is highly transparent. The size of the visual and phonological units that are processed while reading is modulated by the orthographic depth of the language being read. In the case of early biliterate readers, reading strategies are characterized by cross-linguistic transfer. It is an open question whether this is also the case for late biliterate bilinguals, and whether such cross-linguistic modulations are also discernible in the presence of dyslexia-related impairments, such as phonological and visual attentional span deficits. By means of eye-tracking, this study shows that cross-linguistic interactions in the reading system also emerge in late biliterates, though this effect is limited in individuals with DD.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147976594","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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Lexical Development in Bilingual Adolescents: A Study of Chinese-English Word Association Networks. 双语青少年词汇发展：汉英词联想网络研究
IF 1.7 2区 文学
Journal of Child Language Pub Date : 2026-05-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000926100695
Ping Zhang, Xin Wang
{"title":"Lexical Development in Bilingual Adolescents: A Study of Chinese-English Word Association Networks.","authors":"Ping Zhang, Xin Wang","doi":"10.1017/S0305000926100695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the development of bilingual lexical networks in adolescence through word association task and network analysis. Participants were Chinese-English bilinguals in Grade 8 (middle school; aged 13-14 years) and Grade 11 (high school; aged 16-17 years). Networks were constructed based on word association responses separately for each grade and language, and structural properties of networks were computed. Results showed that from Grade 8 to Grade 11, the Chinese networks displayed increased within-group convergence while maintaining overall structural stability and small-world features. In contrast, the English networks expanded in size, with longer average shortest paths, higher local clustering, and greater modularity (Q), reflecting rapid growth and restructuring, while also exhibiting small-world features. Across grades, L1 networks remained larger and more structured than L2 networks, though the gap decreased over time, indicating increasing cross-language similarity. These findings provide new insights into bilingual lexical development during the adolescent years.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147965054","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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