Metaphor comprehension in the acquisition of Arabic
This study investigated metaphor comprehension in typically developing Arabic-speaking children aged 3;01-6;07. Eighty-seven children were administered a newly developed task containing 20 narrated stories and were asked to point at pictures that best illustrated the metaphoric expression. The results were examined through a mixed ANCOVA, testing the effects of chronological age, metaphor type (primary, perceptual) and metaphor conventionality (conventional, novel) on metaphor comprehension. Children could understand some metaphors just after their third birthday, and their comprehension increased with age. Children's perf...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 24, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Alaa Almohammadi Dorota Katarzyna Gaskins Gabriella Rundblad Source Type: research
An observational study of parental language during play and mealtime in toddlers at variable likelihood for autism
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 22:1-29. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000739. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParental language input influences child language outcomes but may vary based on certain characteristics. This research examined how parental language differs during two contexts for toddlers at varying likelihood of autism based on their developmental skills. Parental language (quantity, quality, and pragmatic functions) was analyzed during dyadic play and mealtime interactions as a secondary data analysis of observational data from a study of toddlers at elevated and lower likelihood of autism. Child developmental skills and sen...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kelsey Thompson Elizabeth Choi Jonet Artis Michaela Dubay Grace T Baranek Linda R Watson Source Type: research
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on multilingual families in the Netherlands
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 19:1-22. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000715. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAs a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, public life in many countries ground to a halt in early 2020. The aims of this study were (i) to uncover the language practices of multilingual families during the pandemic, in general and especially regarding homeschooling; and (ii) to determine to what extent the changes in circumstance caused by the pandemic impacted children's language use and proficiency, and family well-being. Parents from 587 families completed an online survey for 1051 children. Data were analysed using ordinal logisti...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 19, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Sharon Unsworth Marieke VAN DEN Akker Caya VAN Dijk Source Type: research
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000703. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCombining adjective meaning with the modified noun is particularly challenging for children under three years. Previous research suggests that in processing noun-adjective phrases children may over-rely on noun information, delaying or omitting adjective interpretation. However, the question of whether this difficulty is modulated by semantic differences among (subsective) adjectives is underinvestigated.A visual-world experiment explores how Italian-learning children (N=38, 2;4-5;3) process noun-adjective phrases and whether their...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michela Redolfi Chiara Melloni Source Type: research
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions
This study investigated caregivers' use of verbs, which have highly abstract meanings, during unscripted toy-play. We examined how verbs co-occurred with distributional and embodied factors including pronouns, caregivers' manual actions, and infants' locomotion, gaze, and object-touching. Object-action verbs were used significantly more often during caregiver-infant joint attention interactions. Movement and cognition verbs showed distinct co-occurrences with different contexts. Cognition and volition verbs were differentiated by pronouns. These findings provide evidence for how verb acquisition may be supported by the dis...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vivian Hanwen Zhang Lucas M Chang Gedeon O De ák Source Type: research
The effect of masks on infants' ability to fast-map and generalize new words
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000697. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTYoung children today are exposed to masks on a regular basis. However, there is limited empirical evidence on how masks may affect word learning. The study explored the effect of masks on infants' abilities to fast-map and generalize new words. Seventy-two Chinese infants (43 males, Mage = 18.26 months) were taught two novel word-object pairs by a speaker with or without a mask. They then heard the words and had to visually identify the correct objects and also generalize words to a different speaker and objects from the same categ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Siying Liu Xun Li Renji Sun Source Type: research
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000703. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCombining adjective meaning with the modified noun is particularly challenging for children under three years. Previous research suggests that in processing noun-adjective phrases children may over-rely on noun information, delaying or omitting adjective interpretation. However, the question of whether this difficulty is modulated by semantic differences among (subsective) adjectives is underinvestigated.A visual-world experiment explores how Italian-learning children (N=38, 2;4-5;3) process noun-adjective phrases and whether their...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michela Redolfi Chiara Melloni Source Type: research
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions
This study investigated caregivers' use of verbs, which have highly abstract meanings, during unscripted toy-play. We examined how verbs co-occurred with distributional and embodied factors including pronouns, caregivers' manual actions, and infants' locomotion, gaze, and object-touching. Object-action verbs were used significantly more often during caregiver-infant joint attention interactions. Movement and cognition verbs showed distinct co-occurrences with different contexts. Cognition and volition verbs were differentiated by pronouns. These findings provide evidence for how verb acquisition may be supported by the dis...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vivian Hanwen Zhang Lucas M Chang Gedeon O De ák Source Type: research
The effect of masks on infants' ability to fast-map and generalize new words
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000697. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTYoung children today are exposed to masks on a regular basis. However, there is limited empirical evidence on how masks may affect word learning. The study explored the effect of masks on infants' abilities to fast-map and generalize new words. Seventy-two Chinese infants (43 males, Mage = 18.26 months) were taught two novel word-object pairs by a speaker with or without a mask. They then heard the words and had to visually identify the correct objects and also generalize words to a different speaker and objects from the same categ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Siying Liu Xun Li Renji Sun Source Type: research
Processing adjectives in development: Evidence from eye-tracking
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000703. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCombining adjective meaning with the modified noun is particularly challenging for children under three years. Previous research suggests that in processing noun-adjective phrases children may over-rely on noun information, delaying or omitting adjective interpretation. However, the question of whether this difficulty is modulated by semantic differences among (subsective) adjectives is underinvestigated.A visual-world experiment explores how Italian-learning children (N=38, 2;4-5;3) process noun-adjective phrases and whether their...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Michela Redolfi Chiara Melloni Source Type: research
The distributional and embodied contexts of verbs in caregiver-infant interactions
This study investigated caregivers' use of verbs, which have highly abstract meanings, during unscripted toy-play. We examined how verbs co-occurred with distributional and embodied factors including pronouns, caregivers' manual actions, and infants' locomotion, gaze, and object-touching. Object-action verbs were used significantly more often during caregiver-infant joint attention interactions. Movement and cognition verbs showed distinct co-occurrences with different contexts. Cognition and volition verbs were differentiated by pronouns. These findings provide evidence for how verb acquisition may be supported by the dis...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Vivian Hanwen Zhang Lucas M Chang Gedeon O De ák Source Type: research
The effect of masks on infants' ability to fast-map and generalize new words
J Child Lang. 2024 Jan 8:1-19. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000697. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTYoung children today are exposed to masks on a regular basis. However, there is limited empirical evidence on how masks may affect word learning. The study explored the effect of masks on infants' abilities to fast-map and generalize new words. Seventy-two Chinese infants (43 males, Mage = 18.26 months) were taught two novel word-object pairs by a speaker with or without a mask. They then heard the words and had to visually identify the correct objects and also generalize words to a different speaker and objects from the same categ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - January 8, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Siying Liu Xun Li Renji Sun Source Type: research
The role of imageability in noun and verb acquisition in children with Down syndrome and their peers with typical development
J Child Lang. 2023 Dec 20:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOur main objective was to analyze the role of imageability in relation to the age of acquisition (AoA) of nouns and verbs in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome (DS) and their peers with typical development (TD). The AoA of nouns and verbs was determined using the MacArthur-Bates CDIs adapted to the profile of children with DS. The AoA was analyzed using a linear mixed-effect model, including factors of imageability, group, and word class, and controlling for word frequency and word length. This analysis showed that high ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - December 20, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Miguel Galeote Natalia Arias-Trejo Armando Q Angulo-Chavira Elena Checa Source Type: research
The role of imageability in noun and verb acquisition in children with Down syndrome and their peers with typical development
J Child Lang. 2023 Dec 20:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOur main objective was to analyze the role of imageability in relation to the age of acquisition (AoA) of nouns and verbs in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome (DS) and their peers with typical development (TD). The AoA of nouns and verbs was determined using the MacArthur-Bates CDIs adapted to the profile of children with DS. The AoA was analyzed using a linear mixed-effect model, including factors of imageability, group, and word class, and controlling for word frequency and word length. This analysis showed that high ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - December 20, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Miguel Galeote Natalia Arias-Trejo Armando Q Angulo-Chavira Elena Checa Source Type: research
The role of imageability in noun and verb acquisition in children with Down syndrome and their peers with typical development
J Child Lang. 2023 Dec 20:1-21. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000673. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTOur main objective was to analyze the role of imageability in relation to the age of acquisition (AoA) of nouns and verbs in Spanish-speaking children with Down syndrome (DS) and their peers with typical development (TD). The AoA of nouns and verbs was determined using the MacArthur-Bates CDIs adapted to the profile of children with DS. The AoA was analyzed using a linear mixed-effect model, including factors of imageability, group, and word class, and controlling for word frequency and word length. This analysis showed that high ...
Source: Journal of Child Language - December 20, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Miguel Galeote Natalia Arias-Trejo Armando Q Angulo-Chavira Elena Checa Source Type: research
