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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas, Leone Buckle, Holly Branigan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective When Distinctive: The Role of Phonetic Similarity in Nested Dependency Learning Across Preschool Years

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia, Angela D. Friederici, Jutta L. Mueller, Claudia Männel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Psychological Well‐Being and Second Language Skills Among Refugee Students in Primary Education

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Teachers of young refugees express concerns about their students’ psychological well‐being and suspect underlying trauma is a hurdle for learning the host country language. This study examines how psychological well‐being (including post‐traumatic stress, internalizing behavior, externalizing behavior, and protective resources) relate to host ...
Hanneke Leeuwestein, Elisa Kupers, Marieke Boelhouwer, Marijn van Dijk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of an idea: The NICHD Protocol, Standard, and Revised

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background This article describes the origins and development of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Interview Protocol. The author's original interest in exploring the reliability of children's accounts of their behaviour and experiences morphed into the assessment of various techniques that ...
Michael E. Lamb
wiley   +1 more source

Redescribing early pragmatics

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Developmental work on ostensive communication calls for reconsidering existing theoretical accounts within a comprehensive framework of early pragmatics and its development. In this paper, we propose a new perspective on the ontogeny and development of ostensive communication as underpinned by a process of knowledge and representational redescription ...
Edoardo Vaccargiu, Diana Mazzarella
wiley   +1 more source

Preschool Duration, Family Background and Long‐Term Outcomes: Evidence From the Expansion of École Maternelle in France

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the long‐term effects of preschool education in France. We focus on the effect of preschool duration on educational attainment and labour market earnings in adulthood. Building on an old tradition of free and universal pre‐primary education, France implemented in the late 1960s a large‐scale expansion of preschooling ...
Francesco Andreoli, Arnaud Lefranc, Vincenzo Prete   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
wiley   +1 more source

Associations Between Weight Status and Mental Well‐Being in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Obesity and poor mental well‐being in childhood and adolescence are growing public health concerns with potential implications for a broad range of life outcomes. Understanding the longitudinal and potentially bidirectional relationship between weight status and mental well‐being is crucial for developing effective interventions ...
Stine Schramm, Iben Rask Heuck, Nina Rica Wium Geiker, Cathrine Lawaetz Wimmelmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Coproduction Meets Professionalism: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Challenges of Lay Input

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coproduction is an established element in public service provision, linked to positive outcomes such as increased service quality and quantity. Realizing these outcomes requires skills and motivation from street‐level professionals and lay actors alike.
Rikke Kolding
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of Swedish Fathers in Late Adulthood on Their Past and Present Parental Role in Relation to the Mother

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With a contextual and developmental perspective, this study aimed to examine Swedish late‐adult fathers' reflections on their past and present parental role in relation to the mother and to see how these reflections incorporate changes in gender and parenthood during recent decades in Sweden.
Maria Wängqvist, Nathalie Korhonen
wiley   +1 more source