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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"child language development;"”.
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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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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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Comparing Differences in Expressive Language Quantity and Quality between School-Aged Children Playing with Traditional and Electronic Toys
… This preliminary study focuses on the expressive language of English-dominant, school-aged children playing with traditional and electronic toys. Method: Four English speaking children between the ages of 5;4 (year; month) and 8;9 were audio and video recorded during individual 20-minute sessions. …
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Unsupervised Phonetic Category Learning from Audio and Visual Input
Understanding how children learn the phonetic categories of their native language is an open area of research in cognitive science and child language development. However, despite experimental evidence that phonetic processing is very often a multimodal phenomenon (involving both auditory and …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… t, k, b, d, g]) are relatively early sounds in children’s acquisition and have specific features that can be measured and compared crosslinguistically. Spanish voiceless stops have shorter voice onset time values than English voiceless stops, and Spanish voiced stops vary allophonically to …
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The ‘Telling Stories’ Project: A case series study of narrative interaction between children who use speech generating devices and their educational staff
Story-telling is important to child language development and plays a critical role within the English National Curriculum. Children who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) have limited opportunities to develop narrative compared to their typically developing peers. The current …
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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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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
The period of early language development constitutes a fundamental phase in children’s later language and communication skills, underpinning their ability to express thoughts, regulate emotions and engage socially. Although this process often appears to unfold naturally, many children are at risk …
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Interactions of caregiver speech and early word learning in the Speechome corpus : computational explorations
… of caregiver speech contribute to a child's early word learning? What is the relationship between a child's language development and caregivers' speech? Motivated by these general questions, this thesis comprises a series of computational studies on the fined-grained interactions of …
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Connecting input to comprehension: First language acquisition of active transitives and suffixal passives by Korean-speaking preschool children
A central issue in language acquisition is the contribution of input to the development of linguistic knowledge. In this dissertation project, I investigate the developmental trajectories of two constructions that express transitive events in Korean (active transitives and suffixal passives) for …
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Auditory Temporal Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment Compared to Same-Age Controls
It has been proposed that impaired language development in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) originates from immature auditory temporal integration (ATI), but results are inconsistent. We compared electroencephalographic data from 25 children with SLI aged 6-11 years to 25 typically …