Search Results - "O'Neill, Daniela K."

Assessing pragmatics in early childhood with the Language Use Inventory across seven languages by Pesco, Diane, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…The Language Use Inventory (LUI) is a parent-report measure of the pragmatic functions of young children's language, standardized and norm-referenced in…”
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The Language Use Inventory for Young Children: A Parent-Report Measure of Pragmatic Language Development for 18- to 47-Month-Old Children by O'Neill, Daniela K

“…Purpose: To demonstrate the internal reliability and discriminative validity of the Language Use Inventory for Young Children (LUI; D. K. O'Neill, 2002), a…”
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"Ratunku!" or Just "Tunku!" Evidence for the Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Language Use Inventory--Polish by Bialecka-Pikul, Marta, Filip, Anna, Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata, Kus, Katarzyna, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…Purpose: To date, there is no tool for assessing early pragmatic development of Polish-speaking children. This study aimed to adapt to Polish a standardized…”
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Pragmatic language development in 18- to 47-month-old Italian children: A study with the Language Use Inventory by Longobardi, Emiddia, Lonigro, Antonia, Laghi, Fiorenzo, O’Neill, Daniela K.

“…The study was designed to investigate pragmatic development and the ability to make comments/questions on social and non-social topics in Italian-speaking…”
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Predicting Later Language Outcomes from the Language Use Inventory by Pesco, Diane, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…Purpose: To examine the predictive validity of the Language Use Inventory (LUI), a parent report of language use by children 18-47 months old (O'Neill, 2009)…”
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Mothers’ complex talk when sharing books with their toddlers: Book genre matters by Nyhout, Angela, O’Neill, Daniela K.

“…This study investigated the influence of book genre (narrative or didactic) on mothers’ language use during a book sharing interaction with their 18- to…”
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A step at a time: Preliterate children’s simulation of narrative movement during story comprehension by Fecica, Agnieszka M., O’Neill, Daniela K.

“…A growing body of work suggests that narrative comprehension involves the simulation of the described events and actions (e.g., Barsalou, 2008; Matlock, 2004)…”
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Storybooks aren't just for fun: narrative and non-narrative picture books foster equal amounts of generic language during mother-toddler book sharing by Nyhout, Angela, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…Parents and children encounter a variety of animals and objects in the early picture books they share, but little is known about how the context in which these…”
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The emergence of episodic future thinking in humans by Atance, Cristina M., O’Neill, Daniela K.

“…In this paper, we discuss the construct of episodic future thinking. We have previously defined episodic future thinking as the ability to project oneself into…”
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The Assessment of Early Pragmatic Development: A Study of the Reliability and Validity of the Language Use Inventory-Italian by Longobardi, Emiddia, Lonigro, Antonia, Laghi, Fiorenzo, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…Purpose: Pragmatics is receiving much attention in both the fields of developmental and clinical psychology; however, there is a dearth of instruments to…”
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Preschool Children’s Narratives and Performance on the Peabody Individualized Achievement Test – Revised: Evidence of a Relation between Early Narrative and Later Mathematical Ability by O’Neill, Daniela K., Pearce, Michelle J., Pick, Jennifer L.

“…In this study, different measures derived from 41 3- to 4-year-old children’s selfgenerated picture-book narratives and their performance on a general measure…”
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Episodic future thinking by Atance, Cristina M., O'Neill, Daniela K.

“…Thinking about the future is an integral component of human cognition – one that has been claimed to distinguish us from other species. Building on the…”
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Preschoolers’ talk about future situations by Atance, Cristina M., O’Neill, Daniela K.

“…We conducted 2 experiments that examined 3-year-olds’ ability to talk about future situations involving the self. In both experiments, children participated in…”
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Children's Enactment of Characters' Movements: A Novel Measure of Spatial Situation Model Representations and Indicator of Comprehension by Nyhout, Angela, O'Neill, Daniela K.

“…ABSTRACT A story's space or setting often determines and constrains the actions of its characters. We report on an experiment with 106 children of 7–8 years…”
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Reliability, validity and developmental sensitivity of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) in the Chinese context by Qian, Lu, Shao, Huan, Fang, Hui, Xiao, Ting, Ding, Ning, Sun, Bei, Gao, HuiYun, Tang, Min, Ye, Mei, Ke, XiaoYan, O'Neill, Daniela K.

“…Background Pragmatics has generally been defined as the ability to use language in social situations, it is commonly regarded as the third major component of…”
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The Emergence of the Ability to Track a Character's Mental Perspective in Narrative by O'Neill, Daniela K, Shultis, Rebecca M

“…In comprehending stories, adults create mental models from which they follow the actions of the characters from the characters' different mental vantage…”
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Two-Year-Old Children's Sensitivity to a Parent's Knowledge State When Making Requests by O Neill, Daniela K

“…These studies examined whether toddlers take their communicative partners' knowledge states into account when communicating with them. In Study 1, 16…”
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‘I like Barney’: Preschoolers’ spontaneous conversational initiations with peers by O'Neill, Daniela K., Main, Rebecca M., Ziemski, Renata A.

“…In the absence of scaffolding provided by adults or a play situation, what topics will preschoolers raise in attempting to begin conversations with each other?…”
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Preschool Children's Difficulty Understanding the Types of Information Obtained through the Five Senses by O'Neill, Daniela K., Chong, Selena

“…Two studies explored 3- and 4-year-olds' (N = 60) understanding that the five senses can each lead to different types of knowledge. In Study 1, 40 children…”
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Acting and Planning on the Basis of a False Belief: Its Effects on 3-Year-Old Children's Reasoning About Their Own False Beliefs by Atance, Cristina M, O'Neill, Daniela K

“…This study examined 3-year-olds' explanations for actions of theirs that were premised on a false belief. In Experiment 1, children stated what they thought…”
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