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Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development (2026)
ISSN 2148-1997 · Science-res Publishing · 112 articles in the index
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Acquisition of agreement in the Ɓàsàá numeral system
This paper seeks to investigate the acquisition of agreement in the Ɓàsàá numeral system, and account for why children could fail to use agreements in the numeral system. Eighteen children (18) aged from 3.1 -14.1 have participated to the study following a cross-sectional sampling approach. Data…
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An experimental study of Children’s acquisition of Mandarin recursive locatives
Recursion is widely regarded as a defining property of human language, yet its acquisition remains uneven across domains and languages. While previous research has focused primarily on recursive possessives and prepositional phrases, recursive locative constructions in Mandarin have received…
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Developmental changes in narrative productivity and complexity: A T‑unit analysis of storytelling in typically developing Kannada‑speaking children.
Background: Narrative discourse is a sensitive index of school‑age language development and is closely linked to literacy, academic achievement, and social–pragmatic competence in children. However, quantitative studies of oral storytelling in non‑English, Indian languages remain limited…
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The development of determiner use in young children: evidence from the Howe Corpus
The present study investigates whether children’s early determiner use reflects emerging abstract grammatical categories or item-specific patterns. Using naturalistic longitudinal speech data from the Howe Corpus, which includes 16 British English-speaking mother-child dyads recorded at two time…
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The effect of free play in preschoolers´ language improvement: a systematic review
The main purpose was twofold: systematically gather and analyze the existing research literature in order to synthesize and critically evaluate the available evidence to determine the extent to which free play interventions contribute to improving language skills in preschool-aged children, and…
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on communication development in young children: A retrospective descriptive study from Hubli-Dharwad region
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns disrupted early childhood environments, limiting social interaction, structured play, and caregiver engagement, which may have adversely affected communication development in children aged two to five years. This study aimed to profile communication…
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Bridging audiology and emergent literacy: SLP students' application of LING 6 sounds in early childhood education
This study investigates how online pre-master's speech-language pathology (SLP) students incorporate the LING 6 sounds (/mm/, /ah/, /s/, /sh/, /ee/, /oo/) into emergent literacy activities aimed at enhancing early childhood language acquisition and phonemic awareness. Twelve students in an…
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Children's acquisition of recursive possessives in Mandarin
This study investigates the developmental stages in the acquisition of two-level possessive recursive structures by Mandarin-speaking children aged 3 to 6. Using the 'answering a question while seeing a picture' task, it was found that children begin to accurately understand two-level possessive…
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Pattern of language recovery relating to bilingualism in Ao Naga and English language: A case presentation
Background: Most of the population of the world is bilingual and the language emergence process in bilingual aphasics can be indifferent based on various factors. The similarity between First Language (L1) and Second Language(L2), age of second language(L2) acquisition, and usage of L2 are some of…
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The impact of counselling on caregivers' readiness to use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A pre-post survey study
The success of AAC implementation for regular communication at home primarily depends on caregivers’ perceptions and attitudes towards AAC. However, misconceptions and negative attitudes influence caregivers' attitudes to use AAC with their children. So, appropriate counselling and guidance might…
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Diversity within complex syntax: Complex syntax tokens of children with Developmental Language Disorder
Constructivist accounts of children’s acquisition of complex syntax make a distinction between children’s initial complex syntax tokens and later-produced complex syntax tokens. Children’s initial complex syntax tokens are concrete expressions or lexically-specific constructions (e.g., Remember, I…
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Developing a Persian version of the Wug Test to assess children’s morphological knowledge
Assessing children's linguistic knowledge is essential for understanding the processes underlying language acquisition and development. To this end, Berko (1958) developed the Wug Test, a tool to evaluate English-speaking children's morphological knowledge and to identify potential language…
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Assessment of cognitive linguistic skills in Malayalam speaking children
Understanding the relationship between cognition and language is critical for assessing normal child development. However, studies investigating cognitive-linguistic abilities of young children are limited in the Indian context. The present study assessed the developmental pattern of…
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Lexical development in Tamil-speaking preschool and primary school children – development and validation of a vocabulary checklist
Vocabulary is key to language learning and communication. It is essential for reading, writing, and forming sentences. Vocabulary also reflects intelligence and word knowledge. To accurately assess a child's language skills, a culturally fair vocabulary checklist is needed. This tool can help…
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Phonological awareness in biliterates of alphasyllabic and alphabetic orthography
Majority of the literature focused on the effect of L1 on the acquisition of L2 in most of the language aspects, but it is not possible to elude the influence of L2 on L1 processing especially young learners. As in the present study, learning Arabic along with Malayalam can be bewildering for…
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Phonological development in 3-5 years old Bahdini Kurdish-speaking children
Studying phonological development is crucial for understanding linguistic patterns, supporting language perservation, educational development and clinical practice. There is lack of sufficient research about phonological development in the Kurdish language. The aim of this study is to examine the…
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Addressing the impact of psychosocial factors of parents on home-training: A pre-post comparison
Language learning of children with communication disorders is facilitated in natural situations by parents through the home-training provided by Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs). Implementation of home-training is highly dependent on the psychosocial factors of parents. Hence, the present study…
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Awareness, knowledge, and attitudes towards Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) among public university Students in Bangladesh
Background: Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) affects communication and learning, yet remains less identified throughout South Asia. The study investigated public university students’ awareness, factual knowledge and attitudes towards DLD in Bangladesh, with a focus on gender and regional…
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Agreement groups circuits for a unified account of syntactic priming: Theory and applications
The present paper seeks to highlight qualitative congruencies between empirical data from behavioural experiments on linguistic structural priming and insights obtained from the Agreement Groups (AG) approach, a cognitive, usage-based, distributional framework for modelling linguistic processing…
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Gestural augmentation in facilitating tense marker use: a pre-post comparison
Gestures are a part of unaided Augmentative and Alternative communication (AAC). They are more socially acceptable and are augmented along with speech by both typically developing (TD) and individuals with intellectual disability (ID). Hence, an attempt was made to examine how these gestures can be…