Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2239791
Benjamin Luke Davies, Katherine Demuth
When acquiring the English plural, children correctly produce plural words long before they develop an understanding of morphological structure. When acquiring Sesotho noun prefixes, children are a...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2239802
Janna B Oetting
Shin and Mill (2021) propose four steps children go through when learning variable form use. Although I applaud Shin and Miller's focus on morphosyntactic variation, their accrual of evidence is post hoc and selective. Fortunately, Shin and Miller recognize this and encourage tests of their ideas. In support of their work, I share data from children with and without DLD within AAE and SWE to promote these child profiles and dialectal varieties in future studies.
Shin 和 Mill（2021 年）提出了儿童学习变体形式使用的四个步骤。尽管我赞赏 Shin 和 Miller 对形态句法变异的关注，但他们对证据的累积是事后的和选择性的。幸运的是，Shin 和 Miller 认识到了这一点，并鼓励对他们的观点进行检验。为了支持他们的工作，我分享了 AAE 和 SWE 中患有和不患有 DLD 的儿童的数据，以便在未来的研究中推广这些儿童概况和方言变体。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2285776
Ying Li
While phonetic training in laboratory settings has been shown to be helpful for second language (L2) sounds learning in prior studies , it is still open to debate whether a perception- or a product...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2277468
Laura Franchin, Anna Teresa Porrini, Luca Surian
Young children’s (n = 108) and adults’ (n = 40) ability to compute ad-hoc quantity conversational implicatures was assessed using a new implicit task that relied on eye-tracking. The children were ...
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Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2256713
Viridiana L. Benitez, Ye Li
ABSTRACTCross-situational word learning, the ability to decipher word-referent links over multiple ambiguous learning events, has been documented across development and proposed to be key to vocabulary acquisition. However, this work has largely focused on learning from one-to-one structure, where each referent is consistently linked with a single label. In contrast, learners can encounter lexical overlap, such as when learning synonyms, which requires learning from structure that presents multiple labels linked with the same thing (many-to-one structure). Are children capable of cross-situational word learning from encounters presenting consistent lexical overlap? How does this ability change with age? Here, we provide a first test of cross-situational word learning from input presenting lexical overlap across age by testing 4- to 7-year-old children (N = 190) and adults (N = 80) on their ability to learn from one-to-one or two-to-one structure. Results showed that adults (Experiment 1) were successful at learning from both types of structure, with an advantage for one-to-one structure. Children (Experiment 2) performed less well than adults overall, and failed to learn from two-to-one structure. With extended training (Experiment 3), older children were successful at learning from two-to-one structure while younger children were not. These results provide the first evidence that cross-situational word learning from one-to-one and two-to-one structure improves over age. AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank Cassandra Leedom, Gillian Bryant, Emily Fatula, Claire Mulholand, Kaitlin Mulvaney, and Susan Webber for their assistance in recruiting and testing our child participants, and Elaina Corbin for assistance in recruiting and testing our adult participants. A portion of the data was presented as part of a senior honors thesis by Elaina Corbin to the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. We would like to especially thank the staff at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix for their support during data collection, and all college students, children, and parents who participated in our study.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 The adult sample was pre-registered and collected after our child sample. However, we present the adult data first as this facilitates the interpretation of the child data.2 Our final sample size for each condition exceeded that of our target sample size in our pre-registration (N = 30 for each condition). After completing data collection for our pre-registered sample and analyzing the results, we began a replication study based on the effect size of learning in the Two-to-one condition in our pre-registered sample. This effort was interrupted in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given our inability to continue our replication sample, we opted to combine our two samples in this report. Results with the combined sample were qualitatively similar to the small
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2260216
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2256708
Andrew Cheng, Elise McClay, H. Henny Yeung
Research on the acoustic characteristics of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in North American English indicates that it is generally higher-pitched than Adult Directed Speech (ADS) and has unique prosodic characteristics, which is commonly found across many spoken languages. However, very little research has addressed another important aspect of prosody: voice quality. In the current study, 25 English-speaking mothers from Canada were recorded speaking to their infant children and to an adult peer. Five acoustic measures of voice quality, including glottal constriction, spectral tilt, Harmonic-to-Noise Ratio (HNR), and Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP), were analyzed. Only CPP, a measure of the breathiness of a speaker’s voice, and corrected H1-A2, a measure of vocal creakiness, were found to be significantly different between the IDS and ADS registers. Sociolinguistic research identifies voice quality as a key indicator of speech style and persona; we connect the pattern of breathiness in IDS to a possible “parental persona” that builds on the affective intent of IDS (rather than the pedagogical intent), with suggestions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-20DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2246451
L. M. Troesch, J. C. Weiner-Bühler, A. Grob
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Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2246438
Nadia Lana, V. Kuperman
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Pub Date : 2023-08-07DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2023.2239801
I. Schwarz, Ellen Marklund, Ulrika Marklund, Lisa Gustavsson, C. Lam-Cassettari
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