Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1177/01427237221096085
D. Slobin
Kidd and Garcia remind us of the urgency of gathering comparable child language data across languages and cultures. They provide useful guidelines, and more are suggested here. Languages used for comparative analysis should be picked with regard to precise typological contrasts, pinpointing structures that promise to reveal processes of acquisition. Our knowledge gap may not be as severe as it seems to the authors; nevertheless, we are faced with daunting tasks of collecting data and preparing them for detailed analysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1177/01427237221093847
Morten H. Christiansen, Pablo Contreras Kallens, F. Trecca
The study by Kidd and Garcia is long overdue. Their analyses of published research on language acquisition highlight the lack of typological diversity in studies of how children acquire their native tongue. We concur with their conclusion that more research on understudied languages is urgently needed. However, we argue that what the field needs is not just wider cross-linguistic coverage but a systematic comparative approach to language acquisition – one in which investigations of well-studied languages still has much to contribute.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1177/01427237221094732
Serge Sagna, Virve Vihman, Dunstan Brown
Research on lesser studied languages is vital for the advancement of theories of language acquisition. We discuss two areas where data from Eegimaa have the potential to produce innovative research: (1) language typology, with an overview of the complex demonstratives found in this language, and (2) learning environment and input speech. Here, we show that Eegimaa children learn to speak in a polyadic environment, where they receive input from multiple caregivers, siblings and other members of their community.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1177/01427237221096083
S. Arunachalam, K. Deen, Yi Ting Huang, J. Lidz, K. Miller, Mitsuhiko Ota, K. Szendrői
As members of the editorial team at Language Acquisition, we read Kidd and Garcia’s target article with enthusiasm. In our commentary, we outline some specific ideas for how journals can help to alleviate the issues raised by Kidd and Garcia, some of which are in progress or in place at Language Acquisition, and some of which we hope to undertake alongside other journals in the field. We focus on concrete steps, acknowledging that systemic changes, too, will be required to ensure that our science reflects the diversity of languages learned.
{"title":"Some concrete steps for journal editorial boards: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)","authors":"S. Arunachalam, K. Deen, Yi Ting Huang, J. Lidz, K. Miller, Mitsuhiko Ota, K. Szendrői","doi":"10.1177/01427237221096083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221096083","url":null,"abstract":"As members of the editorial team at Language Acquisition, we read Kidd and Garcia’s target article with enthusiasm. In our commentary, we outline some specific ideas for how journals can help to alleviate the issues raised by Kidd and Garcia, some of which are in progress or in place at Language Acquisition, and some of which we hope to undertake alongside other journals in the field. We focus on concrete steps, acknowledging that systemic changes, too, will be required to ensure that our science reflects the diversity of languages learned.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"736 - 739"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43858693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1177/01427237221094395
B. Hellwig
This commentary on Kidd and Garcia takes a language documentation perspective on diversifying language acquisition research. Following a brief summary of relevant research in Papuan languages, it sketches out current developments to extend into child language documentation. It is argued that these developments constitute a unique opportunity to engage with on-going discussions on best practice in order to ensure that the resulting documentations are of use to both fields: language documentation and language acquisition.
{"title":"A language documentation perspective: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)","authors":"B. Hellwig","doi":"10.1177/01427237221094395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221094395","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary on Kidd and Garcia takes a language documentation perspective on diversifying language acquisition research. Following a brief summary of relevant research in Papuan languages, it sketches out current developments to extend into child language documentation. It is argued that these developments constitute a unique opportunity to engage with on-going discussions on best practice in order to ensure that the resulting documentations are of use to both fields: language documentation and language acquisition.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"770 - 773"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44726006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1177/01427237221094738
A. Sultana
In this commentary, I refer to the issue of typological differences and how they impact the acquisition data by discussing findings from Bangla. Previous and ongoing studies of the acquisition of Bangla reveal that several claims regarding children’s linguistic trajectory, emerging from some of the well-studied languages, are not confirmed. I also argue that language acquisition research is not adequately supported in the Global South and propose a few ways to support research on under-studied languages.
{"title":"The missing majority in child language research: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022)","authors":"A. Sultana","doi":"10.1177/01427237221094738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221094738","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary, I refer to the issue of typological differences and how they impact the acquisition data by discussing findings from Bangla. Previous and ongoing studies of the acquisition of Bangla reveal that several claims regarding children’s linguistic trajectory, emerging from some of the well-studied languages, are not confirmed. I also argue that language acquisition research is not adequately supported in the Global South and propose a few ways to support research on under-studied languages.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"823 - 826"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49529282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1177/01427237221094226
Ann Nordberg
There are important aspects to consider before adapting the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT) for improving teachers’ shared book reading strategies in different teaching contexts. To exemplify possible challenges when adapting the ELLECCT, this commentary uses the early childhood education context in Sweden.
{"title":"Potential of the ELLECCT in teachers’ professional development: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)","authors":"Ann Nordberg","doi":"10.1177/01427237221094226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221094226","url":null,"abstract":"There are important aspects to consider before adapting the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers (ELLECCT) for improving teachers’ shared book reading strategies in different teaching contexts. To exemplify possible challenges when adapting the ELLECCT, this commentary uses the early childhood education context in Sweden.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"584 - 587"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42432963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1177/01427237221093850
Keeley L. Dobinson, J. Dockrell
Domain-specific observational tools that use valid and objectively measurable items are key to supporting improvement and developing understanding of practice in early years classrooms. The ‘Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers’ (ELLECCT) aims to address a current gap in the tools that are available to capture behaviours which support language and literacy during book reading activities. We examine the ELLECCT’s utility as a single observational tool for both researchers and educators seeking to capture extratextual oral language and emergent literacy strategies during shared book reading.
{"title":"Examining the psychometric properties of the ELLECCT: A commentary on Weadman, Serry and Snow (2022)","authors":"Keeley L. Dobinson, J. Dockrell","doi":"10.1177/01427237221093850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221093850","url":null,"abstract":"Domain-specific observational tools that use valid and objectively measurable items are key to supporting improvement and developing understanding of practice in early years classrooms. The ‘Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers’ (ELLECCT) aims to address a current gap in the tools that are available to capture behaviours which support language and literacy during book reading activities. We examine the ELLECCT’s utility as a single observational tool for both researchers and educators seeking to capture extratextual oral language and emergent literacy strategies during shared book reading.","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"42 1","pages":"592 - 595"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48636159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-27DOI: 10.1177/01427237221091622
Nyberg, S., Rudner, M., Mattila, P., & Heimann, M. (2021). No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants. First Language, 41(6), 760–778. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211035985
{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants’","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/01427237221091622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221091622","url":null,"abstract":"Nyberg, S., Rudner, M., Mattila, P., & Heimann, M. (2021). No evidence of an association between parental mind-mindedness at 9 months and language development at either 9 or 25 months in Swedish infants. <i>First Language, 41</i>(6), 760–778. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237211035985","PeriodicalId":47254,"journal":{"name":"First Language","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138540483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-12DOI: 10.1177/01427237221086473
V. Persici, Marika Morelli, M. Lavelli, E. Florit, L. Guerzoni, D. Cuda, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, M. Majorano
The present study aimed to investigate the communicative characteristics of children with cochlear implants (CIs) and their mothers in interaction, whether and how they differ from those of mother–child dyads with normal hearing, and whether mother and child influence each other over the first year after implantation. Eighteen Italian-speaking children with CIs were assessed longitudinally across four time points, from before implantation (ages: 10–33 months) to 1 year after implantation. Two groups of normally-hearing children matched for age or lexical production level were used as comparison groups. The language used by mothers in semi-structured play sessions with their children was analyzed for use of specific techniques aimed at eliciting language in children with CIs (or Facilitating Language Techniques [FLTs]: questions, labeling, comments, parallel talk, reformulations, and directives); children’s language was analyzed for communicative functions (initiatives and adequate responses). Results showed delayed communicative development for children with CIs with respect to both control groups and different use of FLTs such as directives between mothers of children with or without normal hearing. Findings also highlighted an effect of the interlocutor’s communicative behavior for both children and mothers: In the group of children with CIs, children’s initiatives were hindered by a higher use of questions; mothers’ labeling was negatively affected by children’s responsivity. Findings may have important implications for language development support programs, families, and professionals.
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