Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development
J Child Lang. 2023 Dec 13:1-20. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000648. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBilinguals need to learn two words for most concepts. These words are called translation equivalents, and those that also sound similar (e.g., banana-banane) are called cognates. Research has consistently shown that children and adults process and name cognates more easily than non-cognates. The present study explored if there is such an advantage for cognate production in bilinguals' early vocabulary development. Longitudinal expressive vocabulary data were collected from 47 English-French bilinguals starting at 16-20 months up t...
Source: Journal of Child Language - December 13, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Lori Mitchell Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui Krista Byers-Heinlein Source Type: research
Cognates are advantaged over non-cognates in early bilingual expressive vocabulary development
J Child Lang. 2023 Dec 13:1-20. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000648. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBilinguals need to learn two words for most concepts. These words are called translation equivalents, and those that also sound similar (e.g., banana-banane) are called cognates. Research has consistently shown that children and adults process and name cognates more easily than non-cognates. The present study explored if there is such an advantage for cognate production in bilinguals' early vocabulary development. Longitudinal expressive vocabulary data were collected from 47 English-French bilinguals starting at 16-20 months up t...
Source: Journal of Child Language - December 13, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Lori Mitchell Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui Krista Byers-Heinlein Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Exploring early syntactic generalisation: evidence from a growth curve analysis of Spanish "se" constructions
This study tested these claims on the Spanish "se" constructions (SSCs) in two children, Juan and Lucía (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015). Ninio's findings were replicated. Nonetheless, exploratory analyses indicated that curves are driven by the temporal distribution of tokens (instances of the SSC irrespective of verb type) and therefore may reflect non-productivity-related mechanisms, e.g., retrieval-based learning. Furthermore, hapax verbs were relatively late to emerge in the children's data, suggesting emergent generalisation. Analyses of raw lexical frequencies indicated relative semantic homogeneity across the two ch...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 28, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nick Riches Source Type: research
Time after time: Factors influencing children's comprehension of < em > Before < /em > and < em > After < /em >
J Child Lang. 2023 Nov 20:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000612. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigated older children's (7-12 years) ability to comprehend before and after sentences. Results found that three factors that influence pre-school aged children's learning of these words continues to influence older children's comprehension. Specifically, children's accuracy is improved when the events can be naturally (vs. arbitrarily) ordered; when the clauses in the sentence iconically match (vs. mismatch) the order of the events in the world; and when sentences use before (vs. after). The first two factors are argued to...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 20, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Laura Wagner Rachael Frush Holt Source Type: research
Time after time: Factors influencing children's comprehension of < em > Before < /em > and < em > After < /em >
J Child Lang. 2023 Nov 20:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000612. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWe investigated older children's (7-12 years) ability to comprehend before and after sentences. Results found that three factors that influence pre-school aged children's learning of these words continues to influence older children's comprehension. Specifically, children's accuracy is improved when the events can be naturally (vs. arbitrarily) ordered; when the clauses in the sentence iconically match (vs. mismatch) the order of the events in the world; and when sentences use before (vs. after). The first two factors are argued to...
Source: Journal of Child Language - November 20, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Laura Wagner Rachael Frush Holt Source Type: research
