Language Development in Childhood

Hoff, Erika

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“…We chose not to frame the study in this way, primarily because we believe that the noun-dominance hypothesis lives a dual life. Many readers have interpreted it as a cognitive/maturational hypothesis (see e.g., Hoff, 2001). On this construal nouns are acquired before verbs because the concepts that they encode are available at an earlier stage in development.…”

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Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children

Snedeker

Geren

Shafto

2012

Cognitive Psychology

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Early language development is characterized by predictable changes in the words children produce and the complexity of their utterances. In infants these changes could reflect increasing linguistic expertise or cognitive maturation and development. To disentangle these factors, we compared the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted preschoolers and internationallyadopted infants. Parental reports and speech samples were collected for one year. Both groups showed the qualitative shifts that characterize first-language acquisition. Initially, they produced single-word utterances consisting mostly of nouns and social words. The appearance of verbs, adjectives and multiword utterances was predicted by vocabulary size in both groups.Preschoolers did learn some words at an earlier stage than infants, specifically words referring to the past or future and adjectives describing behavior and internal states. These findings suggest that cognitive development plays little role in the shift from referential terms to predicates but may constrain children's ability to learn some abstract words.

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Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children

Snedeker

Geren

Shafto

2012

Cognitive Psychology

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“…Like Myth 1, the supposed absence of negative evidence is yet another finding commonly credited to Brown and Hanlon (1970). As a case in point, Hoff (2005) has asserted that Brown and Hanlon's study found that ''the mothers did not correct their children's ungrammatical utterances'' (p. 229). In addition, just as the alleged lack of reinforcement has been viewed by many as externally valid, so too has the alleged nonegative-evidence finding.…”

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Three Myths from the Language Acquisition Literature

Schoneberger

2010

Analysis Verbal Behav

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Three popular assertions have hindered the promotion of an empiricist approach to language acquisition: (a) that Brown and Hanlon (1970) claimed to offer data that parents do not reinforce their children's grammaticality; (b) that Brown and Hanlon also claimed to offer data that parents do not provide negative evidence (i.e., corrective feedback) for ungrammaticality; and (c) that Gold (1967) claimed to offer a formal proof showing that, without negative evidence, a child cannot acquire a language solely from environmental input. In this paper I offer introductory comments on the nature-nurture distinction (including interactionism, and the nativists' claim to have found a gene for language). Next I debunk the three aforementioned assertions by arguing that the authors (Brown & Hanlon; Gold) never made the claims attributed to them; review evidence on the role of reinforcement and corrective feedback in language acquisition; and offer some concluding comments.

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“…In addition to listening, pronunciation is also one of the essential aspects of efficient communication (Hismanoglu, 2006), as it is vital for speaking, which depicts the speaker's communicative competence (Morley, 1991). Learning to differentiate sounds and to pronounce them correctly is in the first stage of learning a language, either as a mother tongue or a foreign language (Hoff, 2014).…”

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The Benefits of the Proprioceptive Method Used in Learning English via Facebook by Thai Government Officials

Cedar¹,

Singhara²

2017

ELT

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Good listening and pronunciation skills lead to successes in foreign language learning. The main purpose of this study was to examine the benefits of adopting the Proprioceptive Method in learning English by Thai local government officials with the help of Facebook. A seventeen-day training course was implemented, comprising two days of face-to-face training, fourteen days of online training via Facebook, and one day of course wrap-ups and evaluation. The crucial training instruments used in the study was online conversations, a minimal-pair listening test, a satisfaction survey and a Facebook chat room for participants' written comments. The statistical results showed that after the training, the trainees' ability to segment English consonant sounds that were problematic for Thais significantly increased. It is inferred that the Proprioceptive Method tended to be effective for training English via Facebook. However, looking closely to the participants' perceptions of the sounds in each pair, the rise was statistically significant in certain pairs, but not all. Additionally, the result from a satisfaction survey demonstrated that the training method was perceived to be at the highest level of satisfaction. Nonetheless, participants' written comments indicate advantages and disadvantages of the training.

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Language Development in Childhood

Cited by 50 publications

References 91 publications

Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children

Disentangling the effects of cognitive development and linguistic expertise: A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English in internationally-adopted children

Three Myths from the Language Acquisition Literature

The Benefits of the Proprioceptive Method Used in Learning English via Facebook by Thai Government Officials

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