A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren
This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy.
Martina Rossi, Lucia Sbacco
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Positive Parenting Behaviors and Child Development in Ceará, Brazil: A Population-Based Study
Parenting practices have been identified as a key determinant of children’s developmental outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of parenting practices with child development in a cross-sectional population-based study in a low ...
Hermano A. L. Rocha +8 more
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Children’s Interpretation of Ambiguous wh-Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese
The paper reports two studies investigating children’s acquisition of the wh-adjunct zenme in Mandarin. Unlike other Mandarin wh-words that correspond to a single meaning, zenme can be used to question either the manner or the cause of an event.
Jing Li, Peng Zhou
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
Hills, Thomas Trenholm
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While there is increasing international interest in approaching language analysis with the prism of repertoire, research on repertoire on the Australian continent is still very much in the shadow of “traditional” language-centric documentary work.
Sally Dixon
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The mainstream primary classroom as a language-learning environment for children with severe and persistent language impairment - implications of recent language intervention research [PDF]
Many UK children with severe and persistent language impairment (SLI) attend local mainstream schools. Although this should provide an excellent language-learning environment, opportunities may be limited by difficulties in sustaining time-consuming ...
Ellis, Sue +5 more
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THE EVOLUTION OF POLYSEMY IN CHILD LANGUAGE [PDF]
It has been hypothesized that early stages of language have left traces of simpler forms of language, for instance, in child language (Bickerton, 1990; Jackendoff, 1999). Word learning biases in children (Saxton, 2010) suggest constraints that human language had to meet at its very origin.
Casas Fernández, Bernardino +3 more
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مُدوَّنة مُعجَم الطِّفل العَربيّ: نَحْوَ مَوردٍ لُغويٍّ جَديد
ساعدُ مُعجمُ الطِّفل في تنمية الثَّروة اللَّفظيَّة لأبناء اللُّغة الأمّ، ويُؤدِّي دورًا مُهمًّا في عمليَّة اكتساب اللُّغة. ومع وجود هذا النَّوع من المعاجم في العديد من اللُّغات الإنسانيَّة، فإنَّ المكتبة العربيَّة تكاد تخلو من معاجم الطِّفل بمفهومها الدَّ
Almoataz B. Al-said
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Correlation of Language Assessment Batteries of Toddlers With Developmental Language Delay [PDF]
Objective To analyze the correlation between standardized language assessment batteries of toddlers and developmental language delays. Methods A total of 319 children with suspected language developmental delays were enrolled in this study ...
Jin A Yoon +6 more
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Balancing generalization and lexical conservatism : an artificial language study with child learners [PDF]
Successful language acquisition involves generalization, but learners must balance this against the acquisition of lexical constraints. Such learning has been considered problematic for theories of acquisition: if learners generalize abstract patterns to
Elizabeth Wonnacott +1 more
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