The Development of Abstract Word Meanings
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000569. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earlier-acquired meanings were rated as more concrete while later-acquired meanings as more...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emiko J Muraki Lorraine D Reggin Carissa Y Feddema Penny M Pexman Source Type: research
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000478. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide variety of language skills has been shown to be compromised in children from low socioeconomic status (SES). However, few studies have investigated the effect of SES on language development in infants. The aim of this study is two-fold: to investigate when the first SES-effects on language can be observed and to explore the effects of three variables often claimed to be linked to SES - gestational duration, stress and parent-child interaction - on language development. Parents/caregivers of 539 Dutch-acquiring infants aged 8...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah J DER Nederlanden Jeannette C Schaeffer Hedwig H J A VAN Bakel Evelien Dirks Source Type: research
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000569. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earlier-acquired meanings were rated as more concrete while later-acquired meanings as more...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emiko J Muraki Lorraine D Reggin Carissa Y Feddema Penny M Pexman Source Type: research
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000478. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide variety of language skills has been shown to be compromised in children from low socioeconomic status (SES). However, few studies have investigated the effect of SES on language development in infants. The aim of this study is two-fold: to investigate when the first SES-effects on language can be observed and to explore the effects of three variables often claimed to be linked to SES - gestational duration, stress and parent-child interaction - on language development. Parents/caregivers of 539 Dutch-acquiring infants aged 8...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah J DER Nederlanden Jeannette C Schaeffer Hedwig H J A VAN Bakel Evelien Dirks Source Type: research
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000569. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earlier-acquired meanings were rated as more concrete while later-acquired meanings as more...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emiko J Muraki Lorraine D Reggin Carissa Y Feddema Penny M Pexman Source Type: research
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000478. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide variety of language skills has been shown to be compromised in children from low socioeconomic status (SES). However, few studies have investigated the effect of SES on language development in infants. The aim of this study is two-fold: to investigate when the first SES-effects on language can be observed and to explore the effects of three variables often claimed to be linked to SES - gestational duration, stress and parent-child interaction - on language development. Parents/caregivers of 539 Dutch-acquiring infants aged 8...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah J DER Nederlanden Jeannette C Schaeffer Hedwig H J A VAN Bakel Evelien Dirks Source Type: research
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000569. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earlier-acquired meanings were rated as more concrete while later-acquired meanings as more...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emiko J Muraki Lorraine D Reggin Carissa Y Feddema Penny M Pexman Source Type: research
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000478. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide variety of language skills has been shown to be compromised in children from low socioeconomic status (SES). However, few studies have investigated the effect of SES on language development in infants. The aim of this study is two-fold: to investigate when the first SES-effects on language can be observed and to explore the effects of three variables often claimed to be linked to SES - gestational duration, stress and parent-child interaction - on language development. Parents/caregivers of 539 Dutch-acquiring infants aged 8...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah J DER Nederlanden Jeannette C Schaeffer Hedwig H J A VAN Bakel Evelien Dirks Source Type: research
The Development of Abstract Word Meanings
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-13. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000569. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with age-of-acquisition data from large-scale vocabulary testing with children in grade 2 to college age. Earlier-acquired meanings were rated as more concrete while later-acquired meanings as more...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Emiko J Muraki Lorraine D Reggin Carissa Y Feddema Penny M Pexman Source Type: research
Socio-economic status and other potential risk factors for language development in the first year of life
J Child Lang. 2023 Oct 4:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000478. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA wide variety of language skills has been shown to be compromised in children from low socioeconomic status (SES). However, few studies have investigated the effect of SES on language development in infants. The aim of this study is two-fold: to investigate when the first SES-effects on language can be observed and to explore the effects of three variables often claimed to be linked to SES - gestational duration, stress and parent-child interaction - on language development. Parents/caregivers of 539 Dutch-acquiring infants aged 8...
Source: Journal of Child Language - October 4, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sarah J DER Nederlanden Jeannette C Schaeffer Hedwig H J A VAN Bakel Evelien Dirks Source Type: research
The importance of modeling pragmatic syntactic bootstrapping
J Child Lang. 2023 Sep;50(5):1065-1068. doi: 10.1017/S030500092300003X. Epub 2023 Feb 15.ABSTRACTSyntactic bootstrapping is based on the premise that there are probabilistic correspondences between the syntactic structure in which a word occurs and the word's meaning, and that such links hold, with some degree of generality, cross-linguistically. The procedure has been extensively discussed with respect to verbs, where it has been proposed as a mechanism for constraining the massive ambiguity that arises when inferring the meaning of a verb that is used to describe an event (Fisher, Hall, Rakowitz & Gleitman, 1994; Gle...
Source: Journal of Child Language - September 22, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Toben H Mintz Source Type: research
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping
J Child Lang. 2023 Sep;50(5):1041-1064. doi: 10.1017/S0305000922000605. Epub 2022 Dec 6.ABSTRACTWords have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and colleagues have advocated for one part of a solution: indirect evidence for a word's meaning may come from its syntactic distribution, via syntactic bootstrapping. But while formal theories argue for principled links between meaning and syntax, actual syntactic evidence about meaning is noisy and highly abstract. This paper examines the role that syntactic bootstrap...
Source: Journal of Child Language - September 22, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Valentine Hacquard Source Type: research
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech is Modulated by Lexical Frequency
J Child Lang. 2023 Sep 22:1-26. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000466. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigate whether child-directed speech (CDS) contains a higher proportion of canonical pronunciations compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), focusing on Korean noun stem-final obstruent variation. In a word-teaching task, we observed that mothers use a higher rate of canonical pronunciation when addressing infants than when addressing adults. In a follow-up experiment, adults exhibited a higher rate of canonical pronunciation for high- than low-frequency words. Additional analyses conducted with only the high-frequency mon...
Source: Journal of Child Language - September 22, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Eon-Suk Ko Jongho Jun Source Type: research
The importance of modeling pragmatic syntactic bootstrapping
J Child Lang. 2023 Sep;50(5):1065-1068. doi: 10.1017/S030500092300003X. Epub 2023 Feb 15.ABSTRACTSyntactic bootstrapping is based on the premise that there are probabilistic correspondences between the syntactic structure in which a word occurs and the word's meaning, and that such links hold, with some degree of generality, cross-linguistically. The procedure has been extensively discussed with respect to verbs, where it has been proposed as a mechanism for constraining the massive ambiguity that arises when inferring the meaning of a verb that is used to describe an event (Fisher, Hall, Rakowitz & Gleitman, 1994; Gle...
Source: Journal of Child Language - September 22, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Toben H Mintz Source Type: research
Being pragmatic about syntactic bootstrapping
J Child Lang. 2023 Sep;50(5):1041-1064. doi: 10.1017/S0305000922000605. Epub 2022 Dec 6.ABSTRACTWords have meanings vastly undetermined by the contexts in which they occur. Their acquisition therefore presents formidable problems of induction. Lila Gleitman and colleagues have advocated for one part of a solution: indirect evidence for a word's meaning may come from its syntactic distribution, via syntactic bootstrapping. But while formal theories argue for principled links between meaning and syntax, actual syntactic evidence about meaning is noisy and highly abstract. This paper examines the role that syntactic bootstrap...
Source: Journal of Child Language - September 22, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Valentine Hacquard Source Type: research
