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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BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language
Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2021 Transformer-based language models have taken the NLP world by storm. However, their potential for addressing important questions in language acquisition research has been largely ignored.
Philip A. Huebner +3 more
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Child language brokers’ representations of parent-child relationships [PDF]
, 2017 This paper reports the analysis of qualitative data from a broader study of young people’s representations of conflicting roles in child development. Just over a quarter of the group, bilingual students who spoke a variety of first languages, had had ...
Abreu, Guida de +3 more
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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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Unique contribution of shared book reading on adult-child language interaction
Journal of Child Language, 2020 Researchers agree that early literacy activities, like book sharing and parent-child play, are important for stimulating language development. We hypothesize that book sharing is most powerful because it elicits more interactive talk in young children ...
Lucy F Clemens, C. A. T. Kegel
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