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Child language brokers’ representations of parent-child relationships [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Discourse accessibility constraints in childrenʼs processing of object relative clauses

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Childrenʼs poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which ...
Yair eHaendler   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language growth in very young siblings at risk for autism spectrum disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show substantial variability in their language development. Language problems are highly prevalent in these children.
Beyers, Wim   +7 more
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MAIN-testi kasutamine eesti laste jutustamisoskuse hindamiseks

open access: yesEesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2018
"Using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives test for the assessment of Estonian children’s narrative skills" In the Estonian language context, the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) has not been used for research
Andra Kütt
doaj   +1 more source

The acquisition of prepositions in Serbian: Factors and mechanisms of development [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2004
The study proceeds from the results of the previous studies showing that the distributional characteristics (frequency) of language input are crucial for the acquisition of prepositions (Savić & Anđelković, 2005, in preparation).
Savić Maja, Anđelković Darinka Č.
doaj   +1 more source

Modality-Independent Effects of Phonological Neighborhood Structure on Initial L2 Sign Language Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of the present study was to characterize how neighborhood structure in sign language influences lexical sign acquisition in order to extend our understanding of how the lexicon influences lexical acquisition in both sign and spoken languages.
Bochner   +113 more
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Emergence of verb-pattern morphology in young Arabic speakers: morphological and semantic features

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionArabic, a Semitic language, displays a particularly rich derivational morphological system with all verb stems consisting of a semantic root and a prosodic verb-pattern.
Naila Tallas-Mahajna   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The present study investigates the effects of child internal (age/time) and child external/environmental factors on the development of a wide range of language domains in successive bilingual (L2) Turkish-English children of homogeneously low SES.
Chondrogianni, Vicky, Marinis, Theo
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The perfective past tense in Greek child language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli ...
Clahsen   +17 more
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Whorfian potential in child language

open access: yesPsychology of Language and Communication, 2018
As toddlers begin the language acquisition process, event memory and the capacity for dead-reckoning are developing in the cognitive domain, providing the potential to think about the relative location of events in time and objects in space.
Weist Richard M.
doaj   +1 more source

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