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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"child language"”.
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James Bay Cree perspectives on child language development
… explores cultural practices and priorities for child language development in two Cree communities in the James Bay Cree Region of northern Quebec, Canada. Using thematic analysis, themes are derived from semistructured interviews with 24 individuals on topics of child language development, …
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Processing negative imperatives in Bulgarian : evidence from normal, aphasic and child language
… bound aspectual morphemes and clitic pronouns in child, adult and aphasic language. In contrast to other Slavic languages, Bulgarian negative imperatives (NI) are grammatical only with imperfective verbs. We argue that NI are instantiations of overt aspectual coercion induced by the presence of …
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A critical evaluation of recent research into semantic development in child language
… critically recent research in the area of child language development, with an emphasis on research into semantic development. Various research articles, in particular, are analysed, with particular attention being given to experimental studies. In addition, research into language …
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Evaluation of Teacher Ratings to Improve Child Language Screenings in Speech-Language Pathology
… the validity of teacher ratings for screening children’s language skills. Teacher ratings were measured through the use of two tools, the Children’s Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2; Bishop, 2006) and the Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy (TROLL; Dickinson, McCabe, & Sprague, 2001). …
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The role of Question-Answer Congruence (QAC) in child language and adult sentence processing
… (QAC, von Stechow 1990, Rooth 1985, 1992) in child language acquisition and adult sentence processing. Specifically, I present two case studies: sentences with "only" and sentences with the Rise-Fall-Rise contour (RFR, Jackendoff 1972). Case study 1 investigates a long-standing puzzle …
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The acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök : child-directed speech, child language, and learning in the home
This dissertation investigates the first-language acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök, a polysynthetic Mixe-Zoque language of Oaxaca, Mexico. The recordings analyzed here constitute 44 hours of longitudinal, naturalistic video recorded of three children (2;10-4;7) and their adult caregivers …
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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Classroom Quality and Child Language and Academic Outcomes in a State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program
… between classroom process quality and child language and academic outcomes from the beginning of the pre-kindergarten year to the beginning of the kindergarten year for one cohort of children participating in a state-funded pre-kindergarten program in South Carolina. Data for my study …
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Environmental and Cognitive Factors Influencing Children's Theory-of-mind Development
… theory of mind. That is, family risk may delay children’s theory-of-mind development by impeding the rate of language acquisition, whereas parental cognitive talk may facilitate more advanced theory-of-mind understanding by encouraging more parent-child reciprocity during conversations. Next, …
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Processes Underlying Syntactic Control: Evaluating Linguistically Diverse Children
… nine-year-olds. Inclusion of child language brokers (those who translate and interpret for non-English speaking family members) diversified the definition of "bilingual." Previous research has shown bilingual advantages in areas of metalinguistic awareness and executive …
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The importance of household environments for early language development of Head Start children
… of fields including sociology, economics, and child development to determine how household relationship structures and related features of the home environment may be associated with child language outcomes. Beyond household relationship structures, other key features of the home environment …
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
… Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction regarding the dearth of speech and language assessments and therapeutic tools currently available in South Africa for isiXhosa or other local languages (Pascoe and Smouse, 2012; …
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Split-half Reliability of MLU and MLU2 in Two Methods of Utterance Segmentation
… be a valuable tool for clinicians in analyzing child language.
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Examining the Complex Relationships of Early Intervention on Language and Psychosocial Development in Families Facing Multiple Risks with a Focus on Children of Hispanic Immigrants
… that poverty has negative influences on young child academic and psychosocial development, and unfortunately, disparities in school readiness between low and high income children can be seen as early the first year of life. The largest federal early care and education intervention for these …
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Automated Grammatical Analysis of Language Samples from Spanish-Speaking Children Learning English
… fast and accurate for both English and Spanish child language, but there has been no research done regarding its accuracy with bilingual children. The present study examined this topic using English and Spanish language samples taken from 254 children living in the United States. The subjects …
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An Evaluation of POS Taggers for the CHILDES Corpus
… taggers on a representative collection of child-adult’s dialogues from Child Language Data Exchange System. The nine children’s files from Valian corpora and part of Eve corpora have been manually labeled, and rewrote with LARC tagset. They served as gold standard corpora in the training …
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Effects of Scriptedness on Children's Generation of Expository Narratives
… expository narrative generation were examined. Children, ranging in age from three to nine years old, were seen individually for two sessions. It was hypothesized that the effects of scriptedness would vary across age levels. Tests for language and cognitive abilities were adminstered in the …
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Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation as Immortality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
… like the self-consuming ouroboros, to father a child that will continue his legacy and allow the fair friend to live on via the child. Language associated with the child is alchemical, referencing distillation, vials, flasks, and the renewing power of the philosopher’s stone. The dark lady, the …
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Grounded semantic parsing using captioned videos
… and far more similar to the experience of children where they observe their environment and listen to speakers. The semantic parser recovers the meaning of English sentences despite not having access to any annotated sentences and despite the ambiguity inherent in vision where a sentence …
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Child-adult differences in implicit and explicit second language learning
… is a fundamental difference between adult and child language learning (Bley-Vroman, 1990; Johnson & Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Paradis, 2004). This difference is often framed as a change from implicit language learning in childhood to explicit language learning in adulthood, which is …
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