Typically, parents of high functioning autistic (HFA) children report that, unlike normal children, their children display very little language and sometimes no language at all as they reach three and even four years of age (Sigman& Capps,1997; parents’ interviews 1998). In many cases the lack of language provokes parents to seek professional assessment. After eliminating hearing problems as th...

Braisby, Nick; Dockrell, Julie E. and Best, Rachel M. (2001). Children’s acquisition of science terms: does fast mapping work? In: Almgren, Margareta; Barreña, Adoni; Ezeizabarrena, Maŕıa-José; Idiazabal, Itziar and MacWhinney, Brian eds. Research on child language acquisition: proceedings of the 8th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language. Somerville, MA, US...

Journal of Child Language / Volume 42 / Issue 02 / March 2015, pp 287 293 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000914000683, Published online: 03 February 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0305000914000683 How to cite this article: CHARLES YANG (2015). For and against frequencies. Journal of Child Language, 42, pp 287-293 doi:10.1017/S0305000914000683 Request Permissions : Click here

Maternal verbal responsiveness in naturally occurring interactions is known to facilitate language development for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The present study used a series of A-B replications to examine proximal effects of a naturalistic language intervention on the use of specific language support strategies by mothers of eight young children with an autism spectrum disorder...

Although studies show teenage parenting and low socioeconomic status predict poor child academic performance, limited research has examined relations between teen parenting and children's school readiness within low-income Latina mothers. In the context of the Miami School Readiness Project, low-income preschoolers (N = 3,023) attending subsidized child-care programs were assessed on cognitive,...

Parent involvement and family-school partnerships have been shown to lead to positive effects on children’s academic achievement. A meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the empirical literature on parent involvement and family-school partnership interventions across children’s language arts achievement outcomes. Using a multivariate regression model, 168 effect sizes within 45 studies publ...

Grammatical regularities may correlate with semantics; e.g., grammatical gender is often partially predictable from the noun’s semantics. We explore whether learners generalise over semantic cues, and extent of exposure (1 versus 4 sessions) number exemplars for each class (type-frequency) affect this. Six-year-olds adults were exposed to semi-artificial languages where nouns co-occurred novel ...