A meta-analysis of the predictability of LENA™ automated measures for child language development. [PDF]
Dev Rev, 2020 Wang Y +3 more
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A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren
Quaderns d'Italià, 2023 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
Children, 2022 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
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 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]
, 2013 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 ...
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Languages, 2021 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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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]
, 2006 This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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Beyond the literal meaning of words in children with klinefelter syndrome: two case studies [PDF]
, 2018 Literature on children with Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) points to general linguistic difficulties in both comprehension and production among other cognitive functions, and in the majority of cases, these coexist with an intellectual level within the norms.
Melogno, Sergio +3 more
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Syntactic development in early foreign language learning: Effects of L1 transfer, input and individual factors [PDF]
, 2019 This study explores parallels and differences in the comprehension of wh-questions and relative clauses between early foreign-language (FL) learners and monolingual children.
Anja Steinlen +27 more
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Language skills, peer rejection, and the development of externalizing behavior from kindergarten to fourth grade [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Children with poorer language skills are more likely to show externalizing behavior problems, as well as to become rejected by their peers. Peer rejection has also been found to affect the development of externalizing behavior.
Astington +44 more
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