Six Catalan-speaking and six Spanish-speaking children between the ages of 24 and 48 months participated in a controlled naming task to elicit statement intonation patterns. A total of 127 utterances were prosodically analyzed using Cat_ToBI and Sp_ToBI ([1], [2]) and phonetic analyses of tonal alignment and scaling were performed. Our results show that children as young as two can finely contr...

Comprehension of relative clauses was assessed in 10 Hebrew-speaking school-age children with syntactic SLI and in two groups of younger children with normal language development. Comprehension of subject- and object-relatives was assessed using a binary sentence-picture matching task. The findings were that while Hebrew-speaking children with normal development comprehend right-branching objec...

Nobody denies that the input plays an important role in language acquisition, but the issue as to whether the input is sufficient to drive language learning is still a matter of debate. In this paper we examine children’s acquisition of synthetic compounds in English and Dutch. Despite having necessarily different input, Dutchand English-speaking children produce the same set of non-adult forms...

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Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. 2 Abstract This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the speech of 27 children-nine English-speaking, nine Cata...

Dental caries is a multifactorial disease that includes behavioral and cultural components. The study's purpose was to determine the caries experienced (as measured by dmft) in a group of 2-5 y/o children, assess their family and home environment including consumption of fluoridated drinking water, use of a fluoride containing dentifrice, and level of caregiver formal education. Parents of chil...

PURPOSE There is a paucity of information detailing the phonological skills of Spanish-English bilingual children and comparing that information to information concerning the phonological skills of predominantly English-speaking (PE) and predominantly Spanish-speaking (PS) children. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between amount of output (i.e., percentage of time each...

the use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. cued speech is a very new approach to persian speaking pupils. our aim was to develop a useful website to give related informatio...

Background: application of an American early language test in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects. Aim: to compare the performance of normal Brazilian Portuguese and American English-speaking subjects on the Test of Early Language Development Third Edition (TELD-3). Method: participants of this study were 120 subjects of both genders, ranging in age from 2:00 to 7:11 years (20 subjects in ea...

Developmental patterns of stress placement were examined in a cross-sectional study of native English-speaking children. Forty children blended two individually presented, equally-stressed syllables with varying syllable structures to produce disyllabic nonwords in noun and verb contexts. Children who blended the syllables to produce fluent nonwords showed an effect of syllabic structure on str...