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Annual Research Review: How did COVID‐19 affect young children's language environment and language development? A scoping review

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 569-587, April 2025.
A diverse body of research conducted since the start of Covid‐19 has investigated the impact of the pandemic on children's environments and their language development. This scoping review synthesises the peer‐reviewed research literature on this topic between 2020 and 2023.
Cecilia Zuniga‐Montanez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosody and the information functions of Topic in spoken Chinese according to Language into Act Theory

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This research, framed within the Language into Act Theory (L-AcT; Cresti 2000), presents an initial analysis with both qualitative and quantitative data on Topics derived from a new, spontaneous spoken Chinese corpus (C-ORAL-ZHONG).
Shuai Luo
doaj   +1 more source

How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
wiley   +1 more source

Regras contextuais e morfossintáticas na aquisição da ortografia da língua portuguesa por criança

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
Este estudo pretendeu examinar as diferenças em complexidade apresentadas por diferentes contextos ortográficos na aquisição da ortografia da língua portuguesa.
Elisabet de Sousa Meireles, Jane Correa
doaj   +1 more source

Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co‐participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co‐operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by ...
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
wiley   +1 more source

New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
wiley   +1 more source

Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
wiley   +1 more source

Maternal Child‐Directed Speech Toward Children With Infantile Spasm or West Syndrome

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Maternal child‐directed speech (MCDS) plays a critical role in early language and communicative development, yet little is known about how it adapts to neurodevelopmental conditions such as Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome (WS), particularly when co‐occurring with intellectual disability (WID) or autism spectrum disorder (WASD).
Le Normand M.T.   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morphosyntax in poor comprehenders [PDF]

open access: yesReading and Writing, 2015
Children described as poor comprehenders (PCs) have reading comprehension difficulties in spite of adequate word reading abilities. PCs are known to display weakness with semantics and higher-level aspects of oral language, but less is known about their grammatical skills, especially with regard to morphosyntax. The purpose of this study was to examine
Suzanne M, Adlof, Hugh W, Catts
openaire   +2 more sources

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

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