We present a corpus of transcribed spoken Hebrew that forms an integral part of a comprehensive data system that has been developed to suit the specific needs and interests of child language researchers: CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System). We introduce a dedicated transcription scheme for the spoken Hebrew data that is aware both of the phonology and of the standard orthography of th...

This paper presents a dense database study of child language acquisition from a usage-based perspective of language acquisition and a new analysis of data from an earlier study on simulating language evolution. The new analysis is carried out to show how computer modelling studies can be designed to generate predictions (results) that can be compared quantitatively with empirical data obtained ...

The goal of this chapter is to present some of the interesting and important aspects of cross-linguistic comparisons which can be made between the acquisition of Japanese and of English. We d o not attempt an exhaustive review of the literature (see, for example, Clancy, in press; Iwata, 1979; Murata , 1968, 1972; Sato, 1978 for reviews of the Japanese literature). We focus instead first on the...

Traditionally, the theoretical approaches that are included in accounts of language acquisition occupy different positions on a continuum with regard to how much emphasis is placed on the internal wiring of the child (i.e., the child’s given biological nature) versus the environmental input that the child receives (i.e., nurture). In contrast to these two views, an interactionist approach to la...

Father-child and mother-child engagements were examined longitudinally in relation to children's language and cognitive development at 24 and 36 months. The study involved a racially/ethnically diverse sample of low-income, resident fathers (and their partners) from the National Early Head Start evaluation study (n=290). Father-child and mother-child engagements were videotaped for 10 min at ho...

In this study, we aim to automatically score the spoken responses from an international English assessment targeted to non-native English-speaking children aged 8 years and above. In contrast to most previous studies focusing on scoring of adult non-native English speech, we explored automated scoring of child language assessment. We developed automated scoring models based on a large set of fe...

Pronouns seem to be acquired in an asymmetrical way, where children confuse the meaning of pronouns with reflexives up to the age of six, but not vice versa. Children's production of the same referential expressions is appropriate at the age of four. However, response-based tasks, the usual means to investigate child language comprehension, are very demanding given children's limited cognitive ...

Title of Thesis: LANGUAGE OUTCOMES OF THE PLAY AND LANGUAGE FOR AUTISTIC YOUNGSTERS (PLAY) PROJECT HOME CONSULTATION MODEL—AN EXTENDED ANALYSIS Allison Catalano, Master of Arts, 2016 Thesis Directed By: Dr. Nan Bernstein-Ratner, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences The current study is a post-hoc analysis of data from the original randomized control trial of the Play and Language for Autis...

Latino families who express a higher degree of familism are characterized by positive interpersonal familial relationships, high family unity, social support, interdependence in the completion of daily activities, and close proximity with extended family members. Retention of cultural values, such as familism, may be linked to positive health outcomes; however, little is known about how familie...

In the early years of the Journal of Child Language, there was considerable disagreement about the role of language input or adult-child interaction in children's language acquisition. The view that quantity and quality of input to language-learning children is relevant to their language development has now become widely accepted as a principle guiding advice to parents and the design of early ...