Individual differences in first language acquisition

E Kidd, S Donnelly - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Humans vary in almost every dimension imaginable, and language is no exception. In this
article, we review the past research that has focused on individual differences (IDs) in first …

Early language experience in a Tseltal Mayan village

M Casillas, P Brown, SC Levinson - Child Development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Daylong at‐home audio recordings from 10 Tseltal Mayan children (0; 2–3; 0; Southern
Mexico) were analyzed for how often children engaged in verbal interaction with others and …

Early language experience in a Papuan community

M Casillas, P Brown, SC Levinson - Journal of Child Language, 2021 - cambridge.org
The rate at which young children are directly spoken to varies due to many factors, including
(a) caregiver ideas about children as conversational partners and (b) the organization of …

ALICE: An open-source tool for automatic measurement of phoneme, syllable, and word counts from child-centered daylong recordings

O Räsänen, S Seshadri, M Lavechin, A Cristia… - Behavior Research …, 2021 - Springer
Recordings captured by wearable microphones are a standard method for investigating
young children's language environments. A key measure to quantify from such data is the …

Expressive language profiles in a clinical screening sample of mandarin-speaking preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

L Li, Y Su, W Hou, M Zhou, Y **e, X Zou, M Li - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: This cross-sectional study aimed to depict expressive language profiles and clarify
lexical–grammatical interrelationships in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with autism …

Predicting language proficiency in bilingual children

C De Cat - Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020 - cambridge.org
Using advanced quantitative methods, this article demonstrates that cumulative exposure to
the school language is the best language experience predictor of proficiency in that …

[КНИГА][B] Simply psychology

MW Eysenck - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Simply Psychology, fifth edition, is an engaging and reader-friendly introduction to the key
principles of psychology. Organised around the major approaches to the subject, it covers …

Predicting age of acquisition for children's early vocabulary in five languages using language model surprisal

E Portelance, Y Duan, MC Frank… - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What makes a word easy to learn? Early‐learned words are frequent and tend to name
concrete referents. But words typically do not occur in isolation. Some words are predictable …

[HTML][HTML] Learning to generalise but not segment an artificial language at 17 months predicts children's language skills 3 years later

P Monaghan, S Donnelly, K Alcock, A Bidgood… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated whether learning an artificial language at 17 months was predictive of
children's natural language vocabulary and grammar skills at 54 months. Children at 17 …

What difficulties do children learning English in addition to another language experience with English oral language? A systematic review

N Lester, KE Twomey, A Theakston - The Language Learning …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Within the majority of English-speaking settings, children learning English as an additional
language (CLEAL) underperform academically relative to their monolingual, English …