ABSTRACT A speech act approach to the transition from pre-linguistic to linguistic communication is adopted in order to consider language in relation to behaviour generally and to allow for an emphasis on the USE of language rather than on its form. The structure of language is seen as non-arbitrary in that it reflects both attention…
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Journal of Child Language is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Child and Animal Learning Development.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Journal of Child Language 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Language Development and Disorders Reading and Literacy Development Child and Animal Learning Development Phonetics and Phonology Research Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies |
| ISSN | 0305-0009 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.57 |
| h-index | 167 |
| i10-index | 1,725 |
| Total citations | 138,268 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Manchester |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org |
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ABSTRACT The achievement of labelling was investigated in a longitudinal study of one mother–infant dyad, using video-recordings of their free play in a period between 0; 8 and 1; 6. Analysis of joint picture-book reading revealed that this activity had very early on the structure of a dialogue. The child's lexical labels might be regarded…
The extant literature includes conflicting assertions regarding the influence of bilingualism on the rate of language development. The present study compared the language development of equivalently high-SES samples of bilingually and monolingually developing children from 1 ; 10 to 2 ; 6. The monolingually developing children were significantly more advanced than the bilingually developing children…
ABSTRACTDuring the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the environment. In this review article, I argue that motor acquisitions provide infants with an opportunity to practice skills relevant to language acquisition…
This study compares the prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants in French, Italian, German, Japanese, British English, and American English. At every stage of data collection and analysis, standardized procedures were used to enhance the comparability across data sets that is essential for valid cross-language comparison of the prosodic features of…