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The use of diminutives is a distinguishing characteristic of Child Directed Speech (CDS), and has been studied across many languages, most notably in Dutch and Russian. Linguists Patricia Brooks and Vera Kempe define diminutives as... more
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      CHILDESDiminutives
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      Languages and LinguisticsEye trackingResearch MethodologyPsycholinguistics
This paper describes a coding scheme and a set of semi-automatic procedures for the annotation of complex noun phrases and their morpho-syntactic properties in child language data. These tools are based on the CHAT conventions of the... more
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      LanguagesComputer ScienceLanguages and LinguisticsResearch Methodology
The study is aimed at exploring the occurrence of innovative verb forms recorded in early spontaneous children's production of Serbian – a language with rich inflectional and derivational morphology. The overgeneralized verbs were... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionSerbianCorpus Linguistics
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      Language AcquisitionCorpus LinguisticsItalian (Languages And Linguistics)CHILDES
This paper describes a coding scheme and a set of semi-automatic procedures for the annotation of complex noun phrases and their morpho-syntactic properties in child language data. These tools are based on the CHAT conventions of the... more
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      LanguagesLanguages and LinguisticsResearch MethodologyLanguage Development
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      Language AcquisitionConversation AnalysisChild DevelopmentFirst Language Acquisition
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      PsychologyLanguages and LinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionSerbian
In this study, we discuss the term child-invented form proposed by MacWhinney (2000 [1991]) for the CHAT transcription format and approached by Secco (1994) and Baia (2010). After analyzing data from a case study of a child (M.) acquiring... more
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      PortugueseLanguage Acquisition and DevelopmentCHILDESFonética
Some useful CHILDES CLAN commands
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      Computer ScienceLanguages and LinguisticsSoftware ArchitectureCorpus Linguistics
Iconicity – the correspondence between form and meaning – may help young children learn to use new words. Early-learned words are higher in iconicity than later learned words. However, it remains unclear what role iconicity may play in... more
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      Language AcquisitionIdeophonesFirst Language AcquisitionLanguage Acquisition and Development
Recent studies on the development of pragmatic competence suggest that preschool children are often insensitive to conversational implicatures when they interpret scalar terms (Noveck 2001, Papafragou and Musolino 2003, Musolino 2004,... more
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      StatisticsLanguage AcquisitionPragmaticsQualitative methodology
In this document, we describe the transcription conventions for the Eisenbeiss German child language corpora.1 These conventions are based on the so-called CHAT transcription conventions of the Child Language Data Exchange System... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsResearch MethodologyGerman LanguageCorpus Linguistics
Wer Artikel zu Spracherwerb und Spracherwerbstheorien lesen möchte, nach Lesetipps zu diesem Themen Ausschau hält oder Videos zu kindlichem Spracherwerb anschaut, sucht meist auch nach Beispielen von spracherwerbenden Kindern. Manche... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionChild DevelopmentCorpus Linguistics
Dieser Blogbeitrag ist der zweite Teil einer vierteiligen Einführung in Kindersprachanalysen mit Aufnahmen aus der internationalen CHILDES-Datenbank für Kindersprachdaten: Blogbeitrag 1: Einführung in CHILDES und Vorstellung von drei... more
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      Languages and LinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionCorpus LinguisticsEarly Childhood