ABSTRACT How do children develop the mapping between prosody and other levels of linguistic knowledge? This question has received considerable attention in child language research. In present study two experiments were conducted to investigate four- five-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's sensitivity ambiguity resolution. Experiment 1 used eye-tracking assess use stress resolving structural ambiguities. 2 took advantage special properties Mandarin whether can intonational cues resolve...

PurposeThis study investigates caregivers' utterance type towards preschool Mandarin-speaking children, both non-autistic and autistic, focusing on imperative, question, declarative. It also explores the association between children's expressive language, including number of utterances, mean length utterances (MLU), word order.MethodSixty-nine caregiver-child dyads participated in video-recorded 30-min semi-structured play sessions. Three groups 13 autistic children were matched with 10...

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the psychometric properties Chinese ADHD Rating Scale–IV (ADHD RS-IV): Home Version and explore parent ratings symptoms in a large sample urban schoolchildren China. Method: Parents representative 1,616 (aged 6-17) 12 cities completed RS-IV: Version. Results: demonstrated satisfactory internal consistency, test–retest reliability, parent–teacher correlation, discriminant validity, convergent validity. Factor analysis revealed DSM-IV...

ABSTRACT There are three hallmarks of core linguistic properties. First, they expected to be manifested in typologically different languages. Second, should unify superficially unrelated phenomena. Third, emerge early the course language development, all things being equal (Crain, 1991). The present study investigates a candidate for property, namely semantic property downward entailment. We report findings two experimental studies children's knowledge These experiments explore aspects...

Abstract Grammatical comprehension remains a strength in English‐exposed young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet limited research has investigated how preschool ASD process grammatical structures real time, any language. Using the eye‐movement measures of Intermodal Preferential Looking, we assessed online processing subject–verb–object (SVO) order seventy 2‐ to 5‐year‐old exposed Mandarin Chinese across spectrum, whose vocabulary production scores were dramatically delayed...

This study explores the emergence and productivity of word order usage in Mandarin-speaking typically-developing (TD) children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), examines how this relates to frequency use caregiver input. Forty-two caregiver-child dyads participated video-recorded 30-min semi-structured play sessions. Eleven ASD were matched 10 20-month-old TD another 11 26-month-old children, on expressive language. We report four major findings: (1) Preschool produced structures...

Abstract In this review, we summarize studies investigating comprehension of three core grammatical structures (Subject-Verb-Object word order, aspect and wh-questions) in diverse samples Mandarin-acquiring preschoolers with ASD, all utilizing the Intermodal Preferential Looking (IPL) paradigm. Results showed that children though they were delayed chronological age expressive language (including significantly lower vocabulary production scores), acquired various constructions similarly to...

This study investigates 2–5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the disjunction word huozhe ('or') in two positions ruguo ('if')-conditional statements, i.e., antecedent clause versus consequent clause. The findings from three experiments show that meanings children assign to and ruguo-conditionals conform closely are assigned corresponding logical connectives classical logic. Experiment 1 demonstrates an inclusive-or both conditional whereas adults exclusive-or when it...

This cross-sectional study aimed to depict expressive language profiles and clarify lexical-grammatical interrelationships in Mandarin-speaking preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) during the administration of simplified Chinese Psychoeducational Profile-Third Edition screening.We collected naturalistic samples from 81 (74 boys, seven girls) 2- 7-year-old (Mage = 55.6 months, SD 15.17) children ASD clinician-child interactions. The child participants were divided into five age...

This study delves into the causes and impacts of foreign language learning anxiety among Chinese university students, a topic significant relevance in context China's increasingly globalized educational landscape. Recognizing crucial role proficiency both academic professional arenas, this research aims to unravel multifaceted nature experienced by students languages, particularly focusing on higher education environment. The identifies several key factors contributing anxiety. High-stakes...

Utilizing the Putonghua Communicative Development Inventory-Toddler Form, this longitudinal study assessed expressive language development (including lexicon, grammar, and decontextualized language) twice over a year's span in two subgroups (high verbal, low verbal) of 77 2–6-year-old Mandarin-exposed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Both showed steeper increase structural (lexicon grammar) vs. flatter growth language. Moreover, children's initial skills (but not severity or...