Noun versus verb emphasis in Italian mother-to-child speech

Camaioni, Luigia; Longobardi, Emiddia

doi:10.1017/s0305000901004846

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“…Whereas English and Italian adults use more verb tokens, children of both languages showed an equal distribution of nouns and verbs. However, by contrast, Camaioni and Longobardi (2001), studying the speech of fifteen Italian mothers to their children (age 1; 4-1 ; 8) found a verb preference both for types and tokens. Both studies seem to suggest that in Italian input verbs are quite salient, since both found a higher proportion of verb than noun tokens and either an equal distribution of noun and verb types (Tardif et al, 1997) or, again, a higher proportion of verb types (Camaioni & Longobardi, 2001).…”

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Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech

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A B S T R A C TAnalyzing the development of the noun-to-verb ratio in a longitudinal corpus of four Chintang (Sino-Tibetan) children, we find that up to about age four, children have a significantly higher ratio than adults. Previous cross-linguistic research rules out an explanation of this in[*] This research was made by possible by Grant Nos. BI 799/1-2 and II/81 961 from the Volkswagen Foundation (DoBeS program). Author contributions : Stoll designed the study; Bickel performed the data extraction and statistical analysis; Stoll, Bickel and Lieven wrote the paper ; all authors contributed to the development of the corpus. We warmly thank the children and families in taking part in this study. We are grateful to our Chintang assistants for their work on transcription and translation and our student assistants in Leipzig for their work on glossing and tagging the data. The data reported in this work are deposited and available on request at the DoBeS archive . All data extraction analysis was performed using R (R Development Core Team, 2010), with the additional packages lattice (Sarkar, 2010) and gam (Hastie, 2010).

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Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech

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“…Adopting coding schemas which have broadly been used in the literature on early child communication (Bretherton and Beeghly 1982;Camioni and Longobardi 2001;Iverson et al 1999;Lemche et al 2013;Longobardi et al 2015), we investigated the role of dynamic changes in maternal input on children's mental state language and references. We considered both the variety-types-and the occurrence-tokens-of words used by mother and her child in conversation during a free-play interaction.…”

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“…The first is related to maternal inner state talk and how it varied when children were 16-month-olds (T1) and 4 months later, namely at 20 months (T2). We considered this specific time frame because it marks vocabulary spurt and the passage from one-word to two-word combination (Camioni and Longobardi 2001). Moreover, a substantial variability in early lexical development occurs.…”

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References to Mental States in Mother–Child Conversation in the Second Year of Life

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Research into social influences on young children's growing understanding of others' inner states has highlighted the value of early conversational exchanges. This longitudinal study was aimed at investigating whether and how mothers changed their inner state words when children were 16 months olds (T1) and 4 months later (T2), and the children' s ability to use references to mental states at 20 months. Overall language measures (e.g. number of words, mean length utterances) and internal state labels were analyzed during play interactions at T1 and T2 for the mothers, and at T2 for the children. Results highlighted that the mothers partially modified their mentalistic vocabulary over 4 months. Moreover, the use of maternal references directed to the other at T1 is linked to the children's ability to use references with a commentary function at T2. Conversation with the caregivers during daily activity may constitute, for children, a key practice to enhance their metarepresentation skills.

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“…Research has shown, for example, that words presented in an utterance-final position are more likely to be remembered and reproduced than those in earlier positions, consistent with a recency effect (Brown & Fraser, 1963;Siegel & Allik, 1973). In Western languages, nouns tend to appear in the sentence-final position more than verbs (Camaioni & Longobardi, 2001;Caselli et al, 1995 for Italian;Tardif, Shatz, & Naigles, 1997 for English), whereas in East Asian languages, verbs appear in the sentence-final position more than nouns (Au, Dapretto, & Song, 1994 for Korean; Ogura et al, 2006 for Japanese). For example, English has a Subject-Verb-Object language structure ("Sue goes to school"), whereas Japanese and Korean languages prefer a Subject-Object-Verb structure (the sentence "Sue goes to school" can be translated in Korean as "수는 학교에 갑니다" or "Sue school goes").…”

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