Search Results - "Journal of child language"

Wordbank: An Open Repository for Developmental Vocabulary Data by Frank, Michael C, Braginsky, Mika, Yurovsky, Daniel, Marchman, Virginia A

“…The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a widely used family of parent-report instruments for easy and inexpensive data-gathering…”
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Analyzing Input Quality along Three Dimensions: Interactive, Linguistic, and Conceptual by Rowe, Meredith L, Snow, Catherine E

“…This paper provides an overview of the features of caregiver input that facilitate language learning across early childhood. We discuss three dimensions of…”
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The Ubiquity of Frequency Effects in First Language Acquisition by Ambridge, Ben, Kidd, Evan, Rowland, Caroline F, Theakston, Anna L

“…This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a…”
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A Parent-Directed Language Intervention for Children of Low Socioeconomic Status: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study by Suskind, Dana L, Leffel, Kristin R, Graf, Eileen, Hernandez, Marc W, Gunderson, Elizabeth A, Sapolich, Shannon G, Suskind, Elizabeth, Leininger, Lindsey, Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Levine, Susan C

“…We designed a parent-directed home-visiting intervention targeting socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in children's early language environments. A…”
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Dual Language Exposure and Early Bilingual Development by Hoff, Erifka, Core, Cynthia, Place, Silvia, Rumiche, Rosario, Senor, Melissa, Parra, Marisol

“…The extant literature includes conflicting assertions regarding the influence of bilingualism on the rate of language development. The present study compared…”
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Sources of Individual Differences in the Dual Language Development of Heritage Bilinguals by Paradis, Johanne

“…Bilingual children are a more heterogenous group than their monolingual counterparts with respect to the sources of variation in their language learning…”
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Input and Uptake at 7 Months Predicts Toddler Vocabulary: The Role of Child-Directed Speech and Infant Processing Skills in Language Development by Newman, Rochelle S, Rowe, Meredith L, Ratner, Nan Bernstein

“…Both the input directed to the child, and the child's ability to process that input, are likely to impact the child's language acquisition. We explore how…”
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Early Language Experience in a Papuan Community by Casillas, Marisa, Brown, Penelope, Levinson, Stephen C

“…The rate at which young children are directly spoken to varies due to many factors, including (a) caregiver ideas about children as conversational partners and…”
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Cross-Linguistic Influence in Simultaneous and Early Sequential Bilingual Children: A Meta-Analysis by Van Dijk, Chantal, Van Wonderen, Elise, Koutamanis, Elly, Koostra, Gerrit Jan, Dijkstra, Ton, Unsworth, Sharon

“…Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under…”
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Developing Language in a Developing Body: The Relationship between Motor Development and Language Development by Iverson, Jana M

“…During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves…”
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Singing to Infants Matters: Early Singing Interactions Affect Musical Preferences and Facilitate Vocabulary Building by Franco, Fabia, Suttora, Chiara, Spinelli, Maria, Kozar, Iryna, Fasolo, Mirco

“…This research revealed that the frequency of reported parent-infant singing interactions predicted 6-month-old infants' performance in laboratory music…”
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Relationship between Working Memory and Complex Syntax in Children with Developmental Language Disorder by Delage, Hélène, Frauenfelder, Ulrich Hans

“…Some theories of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) explain the linguistic deficits observed in terms of limitations in non-linguistic cognitive systems…”
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Attention to the Mouth and Gaze Following in Infancy Predict Language Development by Tenenbaum, Elena J, Sobel, David M, Sheinkpof, Stephen J, Malle, Bertram F, Morgan, James L

“…We investigated longitudinal relations among gaze following and face scanning in infancy and later language development. At 12 months, infants watched videos…”
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Code-Switching in Parents' Everyday Speech to Bilingual Infants by Kremin, Lena V, Alves, Julia, Orena, Adriel John, Polka, Linda, Byers-Heinlein, Krista

“…Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In…”
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Interpreting Physical and Mental Metaphors: Is Theory of Mind Associated with Pragmatics in Middle Childhood? by Lecce, Serena, Ronchi, Luca, Del Sette, Paola, Bsichetti, Luca, Bambini, Valentina

“…We investigated the association between individual differences in metaphor understanding and Theory of Mind (ToM) in typically developing children. We…”
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Infant-Directed Speech from Seven to Nineteen Months Has Similar Acoustic Properties but Different Functions by Kalashnikova, Marina, Burnham, Denis

“…This longitudinal study assessed three acoustic components of maternal infant-directed speech (IDS) -- pitch, affect, and vowel hyperarticulation -- in…”
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An Intervention to Increase Conversational Turns between Parents and Young Children by Leech, Kathryn A, Rowe, Meredith L

“…Behavioral and neural evidence indicates that young children who engage in more conversations with their parents have better later language skills such as…”
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Effects of Parental Input Quality in Child Heritage Language Acquisition by Daskalaki, Evangelia, Blom, Elma, Chondrogianni, Vasiliki, Paradis, Johanne

“…This study investigates the role of parental input quality on the acquisition of Greek as a heritage language in Western Canada. Focusing on subject use, we…”
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Associations between Maternal Stress, Early Language Behaviors, and Infant Electroencephalography during the First Year of Life by Pierce, Lara J, Reilly, Emily, Nelson, Charles A., III

“…Associations have been observed between socioeconomic status (SES) and language outcomes from early childhood, but individual variability is high. Exposure to…”
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Relationships between Lexical and Phonological Development in Young Children by Stoel-Gammon, Carol

“…Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from…”
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