The Role of Explicit Contrast in Adjective Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Longitudinal Study of Adjective Production in Spontaneous Child Speech and Parental Input

Autor/inn/en	Tribushinina, Elena; van den Bergh, Huub; Kilani-Schoch, Marianne; Aksu-Koç, Ayhan; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Hrzica, Gordana; Korecky-Kröll, Katharina; Noccetti, Sabrina; Dressler, Wolfgang
Titel	The Role of Explicit Contrast in Adjective Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Longitudinal Study of Adjective Production in Spontaneous Child Speech and Parental Input
Quelle	In: First Language, 33 (2013) 6, S.594-616 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723713503146
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Language Acquisition; Correlation; Linguistic Input; Toddlers; Infants; Longitudinal Studies; Age Differences; Speech Communication; Parent Child Relationship; Computational Linguistics; Coding; Reliability; Language Research; Russian; Turkish; German; Indo European Languages; Serbocroatian; French; Italian; Child Language; Databases; Contrastive Linguistics; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Korrelation; Sprachbildung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Toddlers; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Codierung; Programmierung; Reliabilität; Sprachforschung; Russisch; Türkisch; Deutscher; Indoeuropäisch; Serbokroatisch; Französisch; Italienisch; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Datenbank; Kontrastive Linguistik; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	Experimental studies demonstrate that contrast helps toddlers to extend the meanings of novel adjectives. This study explores whether antonym co-occurrence in spontaneous speech also has an effect on adjective use by the child. The authors studied adjective production in longitudinal speech samples from 16 children (16-36 months) acquiring eight different languages. Adjectives in child speech and child-directed speech were coded as either unrelated or related to a contrastive term in the preceding context. Results show large differences between children in the growth of adjective production. These differences are strongly related to contrast use. High contrast users not only increase adjective use earlier, but also reach a stable level of adjective production in the investigated period. Average or low contrast users increase their adjective production more slowly and do not reach a plateau in the period covered by this study. Initially there is a strong relation between contrast use in child speech and child-directed speech, but this relation diminishes with age. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01