Language Acquisition最新文献

{"title":"Lexical skills in children with and without autism in the context of Arabic diglossia: Evidence from vocabulary and narrative tasks","authors":"Muna Abd El-Raziq, Natalia Meir, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2268615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2268615","url":null,"abstract":"Arabic is characterized by diglossia, which involves the use of two language varieties within a single speech community: Spoken Arabic (SpA) for everyday speech and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139068975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Difficulties with pronouns in autism: Experimental results from Thai children with autism","authors":"Nattanun Chanchaochai, Florian Schwarz","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2262457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2262457","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the acquisition of personal reference terms in Thai, a language with a highly complex personal reference system. Two separate studies were conducted for this paper, each featuri...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139068868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A case study of the American Sign Language patterns of a natively-exposed Deaf autistic signer","authors":"Jenny L. Singleton, Kristin Walker, Richard P. Meier, Aaron Shield","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2272837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2272837","url":null,"abstract":"Research on the acquisition of American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf autistic children has documented similarities to the linguistic profile of hearing children on the autism spectrum and has identi...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139030562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States","authors":"Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2266413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2266413","url":null,"abstract":"Aspectual and mood morphology are vulnerable domains in adult heritage speakers. This paper investigates the root of such vulnerability within the domain of Turkish evidentiality system by comparin...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"2015 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138525851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"English derived word recognition by Chinese‐English bilinguals: Testing the nature and time course of the component processes","authors":"Natalie G. Koval","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2260792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2260792","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTResearch utilizing morphological priming has found that L2 speakers show facilitation from derived L2 primes, which could suggest morphological processing during derived L2 word recognition. However, the process of L2 derived word recognition is still poorly understood, with some arguing that the observed priming effects may not be morphological in nature. The present study is a partial replication of Rastle et al. and its extension to L2 English processing. Its purpose is to contribute to our understanding of the nature and time course of L2 derived word recognition. Following Rastle et al., I employed visual priming methodology to explore the activation of morphological, pseudomorphological, orthographic, and semantic processes during a later, central-lexical stage of L2 English derived word recognition by Mandarin Chinese-English bilinguals. The results replicated Rastle et al.’s findings with L1 English speakers. The L2 speakers exhibited morphological effects distinguishable from effects of form overlap, suggesting that surface form overlap cannot explain L2 facilitation from derived primes. These same L2 speakers further showed pseudomorphological facilitation distinguishable from surface form effects, indicative of the operation of a purely morpho-orthographic process at the later stage of L2 English word recognition and further suggesting L2 sensitivity to morphemic structure that cannot be explained by semantic effects. Results further showed a similar graded pattern of activation of morphological, pseudomorphological, and form mechanisms in L2 and L1 speakers of English that appears to be temporally shifted between the two speaker populations. Implications for L2 word recognition theory are discussed. AcknowledgementsI am grateful to the editors and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. I am also grateful to my QRP2 committee members, Charlene Polio and Patti Spinner.Competing interests declarationThe author declares no competing interests.Supplementary InformationSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2260792Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementThe data are available at https://osf.io/w8x72/?view_only=4c020c4469bf4f7dbcccd47cf0069291.Additional informationFundingThis study was partially supported by the SLS Doctoral Program at Michigan State University.","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135142078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Word-level reading skills of Brazilian children with developmental language disorder","authors":"Talita Fortunato-Tavares, Debora Befi-Lopes, John Orazem, Aparecido Soares","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2257202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2257202","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTChildren with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) show a wide range of impairments, including poor pre-reading skills and decoding difficulties due to phonological deficits and such difficulties have significant repercussions on the acquisition of written language. However, evidence about reading processes and development is mainly available for English-speaking children with DLD, limiting our understanding of this process in a cross-linguistic manner. The orthographic characteristics of languages significantly influence the learning process of written code. Unlike English, Brazilian Portuguese has a transparent decoding system and its orthography presents a set of consistent, univocal grapheme-phoneme relations. The present study investigated whether the challenges reported in decoding for children with DLD in opaque languages hold for children with DLD who are speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and whether the length and type of stimuli influence the decoding skills of children with DLD differently than when compared to children with typical language development (TLD). Sixteen children with DLD between seven and ten years of age who are monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and 64 controls with TLD matched by gender, age, and socioeconomic status, with the children with DLD in a 4:1 ratio; participated in the study. All children performed a computerized task where they were asked to decode a linguistically balanced list of words and nonwords designed according to Brazilian Portuguese decoding rules. The present study provides substantial evidence that children with DLD who are speakers of Brazilian Portuguese have deficits in the acquisition of decoding and that the decoding profile of children with DLD is subject to multiple influences, not only with relation to the length and type of stimuli but also characteristics of the languages these children are being literate in, highlighting the multifactorial nature involved in the development of decoding. Disclosure statementThe authors report that there are no competing interests to declare.Data availability statementThe data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, TFT, upon reasonable request.","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135197643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>Smashing</i> verb learning through parental sound symbolic input in preterm and full-term children","authors":"Şeref Can Esmer, Erim Kızıldere, Tilbe Göksun","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2257177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2257177","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSound symbolism, the iconic link between speech sounds and meanings, helps children’s verb learning. In sound symbolically rich languages such as Turkish, hearing sound symbolic words might facilitate early verb learning and later language-specific expressions of motion events, by providing an easier way to map verbs onto events. These links could be much stronger for children who had difficulties in word-referent mapping (e.g., preterm children). The current study examined the association of Turkish-speaking parents’ sound symbolic input at 20 months with children’s concurrent verb knowledge and later motion event descriptions at 48 months. Ninety-one parent-infant dyads (Mage = 19.92 months, SD = 1.38; 41 preterms) were observed at 20 months, where we measured sound symbolic input and verb knowledge. Sixty-four of these dyads participated in a motion event description task at 48 months (25 preterms, Mage = 48.79 months, SD = 1.68), where we coded how children use path (the trajectory of motion) and manner (how an action is performed) of a motion. Results from the robust regression models suggested that for preterm children, parents’ sound symbolic input used in adverb forms was positively and concurrently related to children’s verb knowledge. Only for full-term children, sound symbolic input (used as adverbs) predicted full-term children’s use of both path and manner information in their descriptions at 48 months. Lack of replication of these findings with outlier-removed analyses could only suggest a trend toward the differential contributions of sound symbolic input in different child populations and the importance of sentential cues in sound symbolic input in verb learning. AcknowledgmentsWe thank everyone in the Language and Cognition Lab and Language and Communication Development Lab at Koç University for their valuable feedback for this research. We appreciate the efforts of Işıl Doğan, Aslı Aktan-Erciyes, and Salih Özdemir for this project. We especially thank Işıl Doğan, Nurgül Arslan, Nurdem Okur, and Süeda Vardar for data collection, Cansu Kılıç for data coding, and the families who participated in our study. Special thanks to Metin Sabancı Healthcare Center for Family Counseling for the institutional support, Prof. İpek Akman for her continuous help in the project, Dr. Nihan Hande Akçakaya, Banu Bingöl, and Rahime Gökboğa from Metin Sabancı Healthcare Center to their support for the project, El Bebek Gül Bebek Foundation for Premature Birth and Gymboree Classes for helping us reach out the families.Disclosure statementThe authors report there are no competing interests to declare.Data availability statementThe data used in this study can be accessed from https://osf.io/74ftz/?view_only=2a2bf3c235b04c1da5dace95e1b3d616Notes1 The sound symbolic input data of 34 FT children were also used in Kızıldere et al. (Citation2022).2 Parental education had three levels: not holding a college degree, holding a college degree or equivalent","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135482179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phonetic imitation in L2 speech: Immediate imitation of English consonant glottalization by speakers of Polish","authors":"Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Pavel Sturm, Joanna Przedlacka","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2253545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2253545","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPhonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish learners of English are able to imitate t-glottalization observed especially in British English. A total of 25 Polish learners of English imitated English models’ productions with t-glottalization that were subsequently compared to their default productions (pre-test) and post-exposure production (post-test). The results showed that the participants successfully imitated t-glottalization after the exposure to the model talker. The generalization effect was limited in its magnitude in that only some of the non-imitated words had traces of glottalization. The results are discussed in terms of the differences in the implementation of glottalization in Polish and English and of how phonetic imitation informs second-language speech acquisition. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementThe authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article and its supplementary materials https://osf.io/p3zes/.Notes1 See Docherty & Foulkes (Citation1999) and Ashby & Przedlacka (Citation2014) for illustrations of glottal events in non-SSBE varieties of English. For glottalization in American English, see, for instance, Seyfarth & Garellek (Citation2020) or Kaźmierski (Citation2020).2 Interestingly, when we fit the data with a numeric dependent variable (0 or 1) using a standard lmer model with the same effect structure as before, the predicted means align with the observed means almost perfectly. P-values are generally higher now, and the significance of pairwise comparisons changes somewhat. There is now no significant difference between positions in T1 (p = 0.081), and the effects of task are altered for the comparison T1/T3 (in intervocalic position, the difference is no longer significant with p = 0.128, while in non-prevocalic position, there is now a significant difference with p = 0.006).Additional informationFundingResearch supported by the National Science Centre Poland grant Phonetic imitation in a native and non-native language (UMO-2019/35/B/HS2/02767) to the first author and by the funds granted under Research Excellence Initiative of the University of Silesia in Katowice.","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135206083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obviating the mood, but mostly under control: Spanish heritage speakers’ acquisition of the binding constraints of desiderative complements","authors":"Silvia Perez-Cortes","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2231993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2231993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43912831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder","authors":"Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessattar Mahfoudhi","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2023.2231924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2231924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49312819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}