A5079989956- Reading and Literacy Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
University of Michigan
2012-2023
Michigan United
2011-2016
Department of Health
2004
Peking University
2004
Chinese University of Hong Kong
1998-2000
Yale University
1989
This article examines D. Gentner's (1982) claim that nouns are universally predominant in children's early vocabularies. When a conservative method of counting was used, 9 out 10 22-month-old monolingual Mandarin-speaking children produced more verbs or action words than object labels their naturalistic speech. liberal definition neither noun nor verb bias found. Importantly, there no difference the type-token ratios use and verbs. Thus, sampling type explanation cannot explain prevalence...
This paper examines naturalistic samples of adult-to-child speech to determine if variations in the input are consistent with reported proportions nouns and verbs children's early vocabularies. It contrasts two PRO-DROP languages, Italian Mandarin, English. Naturalistic from six 2;0 English-, 1;11 Italian-, ten 1;10 Mandarin-speaking children their caregivers were examined. Adult-to-child was coded for type frequency, token utterance position, morphological variation as well types placements...
Abstract In this 8‐year longitudinal study, we traced the vocabulary growth of Chinese children, explored potential precursors knowledge, and investigated how predicted future reading skills. Two hundred sixty‐four (264) native children from Beijing were measured on a variety language tasks over 8 years. Between ages 4 to 10 years, they administered related cognitive At age 11, comprehensive skills, including character recognition, fluency, comprehension examined. Individual differences in...
Recently, researchers have been debating whether children exhibit a universal “noun bias” when learning first language. The present study compares the proportions of nouns and verbs in early vocabularies 24 English‐ Mandarin‐speaking toddlers ( M age = 20 months) their mothers. Three different methods were used to measure proportion noun types, relative verb types: controlled observations three contexts (book reading, mechanical toy play, regular play), identical across languages; vocabulary...
ABSTRACT Understanding how words are created is potentially a key component to being able learn and understand new vocabulary words. However, research on morphological awareness relatively rare. In this study, over 660 preschool-aged children from three language groups (Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean speakers) in which compounding morphology highly prevalent were tested their abilities manipulate familiar morphemes create novel compound as well variety of early reasoning measures twice the span...
Abstract Tasks of word reading in Chinese and English; nonverbal IQ; speeded naming; units syllable onset (a phoneme measure), syllable, tone detection awareness were administered to 211 Hong Kong children ages 4 5. In separate regression equations, was equally associated with English recognition. contrast, uniquely only, whereas only. Results underscore both the universality first-language phonological transfer second-language importance different psycholinguistic (CitationZiegler &...
Although there has been much debate over the content of children's first words, few large sample studies address this question for children at very earliest stages word learning. The authors report data from comparable samples 265 English-, 336 Putonghua- (Mandarin), and 369 Cantonese-speaking 8- to 16-month-old infants whose caregivers completed MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories reported them produce between 1 10 words. Analyses individual words indicated striking...
Early prediction of reading disabilities in Chinese is important for early remediation efforts. In this 6-year longitudinal study, we investigated the cognitive predictors skill a statistically representative sample children from Beijing.Two hundred sixty-one (261) native were administered seven language-related skills over three years between ages 3 and 6 years. Performances on these then examined relation to subsequent word accuracy fluency. Individual differences developmental profiles...
This study examined the relations among socioeconomic status (SES), early phonological processing, vocabulary, and reading in 262 children from diverse SES backgrounds followed ages 4 to 9 Beijing, China. contributed variations skills vocabulary children's development. Nonetheless, abilities exerted equally strong independent mediation of effects on achievement by end 3rd grade for this Chinese sample. These findings not only replicate studies alphabetic languages but, because their...
Children's theory of mind appears to develop from a focus on desire belief. However, it is not clear (a) whether this pattern universal and (b) could also be explained by linguistic sociocultural factors. This study examined mental state language in 10 Mandarin-speaking (21-27 months) 8 Cantonese-speaking (18-44 toddlers. The results suggest theory-of-mind development similar that English, with early use terms followed other references. the Chinese-speaking children used much earlier, for...
ABSTRACT Verbs are harder to learn than nouns in English and many other languages, but relatively easy Chinese. This paper evaluates one potential explanation for these findings by examining the construct of imageability, or ability a word produce mental image. Chinese adults rated imageability words from Communicative Development Inventory (Tardif et al. , press). Imageability ratings were reliable predictor age acquisition both verbs. Furthermore, whereas early do not differ verbs receive...
ABSTRACT Parent report instruments adapted from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) examined vocabulary development in children aged 0 ; 8 to 2 6 for two Chinese languages, Mandarin ( n =1694) and Cantonese =1625). Parental reports suggested higher overall scores Mandarin- than Cantonese-speaking approximately 1 4 onward. Factors relevant difference were only-child status, monolingual households caregiver education. In addition comparison of overall, noun...
This article examined the ability of young children to adapt their trust in testimony relation strength prior knowledge across 2 cultures and age groups. Kindergartners second graders United States Hong Kong (N = 128) viewed pictures objects made category judgments about each object: first, presence a teacher who provided labels that conflicted with knowledge, again, pedagogical scenario, when told they were passing information on younger learners teacher's absence. Results showed endorsed...
Maternal iron status is thought to be related postpartum depressive symptoms. The purpose of the present study was evaluate relationship between pre- and postnatal maternal symptoms in pilot (<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" id="M1"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>137</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math>) confirmatory id="M2"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>567</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math>) samples Chinese women. Iron evaluated...
The emotional reactivity hypothesis holds that, over the course of phylogeny, selection animals with less reactive temperaments supported development sophisticated social-cognitive skills in several species, including humans (Hare, 2007). In ontogenetic human case, an predicts that children will reach certain milestones theory-of-mind (ToM) more quickly. We examined relations between temperament and false-belief understanding 102 preschool-age from China United States. Temperament was...
Lead is a pervasive neurotoxicant that has been associated with poorer cognitive, behavioral, and motor outcomes in children. The effects of lead on sensory function have not well characterized. aim this study was to assess the prenatal exposure infant function, as measured by auditory brainstem response (ABR) grating visual acuity (VA). maternal blood mid- late-pregnancy (mean gestational age = 15.5 39.0 weeks, respectively) umbilical cord cohort full-term infants rural northeastern China....
This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chinese-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N = 283, 5-10 years). Research question 1 examines asks how phonological morpho-semantic contribute to word reading as a function children's language background. Structural equation modeling revealed contrasting bilingual effects: compared monolinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals relied more on awareness reading, whereas lexical knowledge....