Global or basic level? The role of verbal lables for categorization in infancySummary: Two groups of 11-month-old infants solved an object examination task, contrasting animals and furniture. Group A (N = 20) received each object together with a basic ...
Modelling techniques play an important role in psychological research. This article discusses the formalism of discrimination nets. Using the CHREST architecture as an example, we show how this formalism can account for behaviour in various domains, such ...
Local Language or Mother Tongue? The Effect of Parental Language Usage on Their Children's Second Language AcquisitionAbstract. An increasing proportion of children grow up multilingually. However, the monolingual school ...
Word Association Norms for 76 French Action Verbs in 5 to 11 Years Old ChildrenWe report verbal association norms for 76 French action verbs, collected for four groups of 50 children schooled in the canton of Geneva, attending kindergarten grade 1 (5 ...
Educational Staff as Language Models in the Preschool SettingAbstract. In the language training of young children, little attention has been paid to the extent to which the institutional educational staff assume ...
The role of language and working memory in the development of mathematical learning from preschool into primary school age – Longitudinal and cross-sectional path analyses of data from the National Educational Panel ...
Does a child’s language system benefit from other domains of cognitive development? A study of the relationship between language acquisition and inductive reasoningAbstract. It was explored whether a language intervention program or an inductive ...
Wesentliche Voraussetzung für eine ungestörte Kindesentwicklung ist ein regelrechter Spracherwerb. Sprachentwicklungsstörungen (SES) im Kindesalter sind häufig. Für spezifische (isolierte) Sprachentwicklungsstörungen liegt die Prävalenz bei 6 – 8 %; ...
Specific Language ImpairmentAbstract.Language acquisition is a crucial developmental task during the first years of a child’s life. Non-achievement leads to massive problems for the child’s social and cognitive (school) development. If language problems ...
Language Development Across the LifespanAbstract: During their development, children acquire language as a complex system of rules and as a primary means of social communication. Language acquisition is a multifaceted process that has ...
Zusammenfassung. Es werden 2 Experimente vorgestellt, die den kausalen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Unterhaltungspotenzial von Hörspielen, der Aufmerksamkeit und dem Sprachlernen von drei- bis vierjährigen Kindern untersuchen. In Experiment 1 wurde 20 ...
Adoption of Literate Structures: How Children Use the Input of Shared Reading ProductivelyAbstract. Shared reading can play an important role for the acquisition of literate structures. Furthermore, children seem to adopt literate structures from the ...
Interactions Facilitating Language Development in Early Childhood Education and Care for Children With and Without Need for Language SupportAbstract: Fostering language development is a central mandate in early ...