ArticleJournal of child language2023
Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges.
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- Connecting Preschoolers' Spontaneous Speech Patterns to Future Language Skills: A 3-Year Concurrent and Longitudinal Cohort Study of Canonical Proportion as a Developmental Index.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Recognition of Familiar Wordforms and Phonological Variation in Akan by Multilingual Infants Learning African Tone Languages in Ghana.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- More Than Looks: Exploring Methods to Test Phonological Discrimination in the Sign Language Kata Kolok.Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development · 2024Article
- Combining observational and experimental approaches to the development of language and communication in rural samples: Opportunities and challenges.Journal of child language · 2023Article
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Abstract
Multiple approaches - including observational and experimental - are necessary to articulate powerful theories of learning. Our field's key questions, which rely on these varied methods, are still open. How do children perceive and produce language? What do they encounter in their linguistic input? What does the learner bring to the task of acquisition? Considerable progress has been made for the development of spoken English (especially by North American learners). Yet there is still a great deal to discover about how children in other populations proceed, especially populations in rural settings. To examine language learning in these populations, we need a multi-method approach. However, adapting and integrating methods, particularly experimental ones, to new settings can present immense challenges. In this paper, we discuss the opportunities and challenges facing researchers who aim to use a multimethodological approach in rural samples, and what the field of language acquisition can do to promote such work.
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