Early parental causal language input predicts children's later causal verb understanding

Loading...
Thumbnail Image

Date

2023

Authors

Aktan-Erciyes, Asli
Goksun, Tilbe

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Cambridge Univ Press

Open Access Color

OpenAIRE Downloads

OpenAIRE Views

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Abstract

How does parental causal input relate to children's later comprehension of causal verbs? Causal constructions in verbs differ across languages. Turkish has both lexical and morphological causatives. We asked whether (1) parental causal language input varied for different types of play (guided vs. free play), (2) early parental causal language input predicted children's causal verb understanding. Twenty-nine infants participated at three timepoints. Parents used lexical causatives more than morphological ones for guided-play for both timepoints, but for free-play, the same difference was only found at Time 2. For Time 3, children were tested on a verb comprehension and a vocabulary task. Morphological causative input, but not lexical causative input, during free-play predicted children's causal verb comprehension. For guided-play, the same relation did not hold. Findings suggest a role of specific types of causal input on children's understanding of causal verbs that are received in certain play contexts.

Description

Keywords

Spatial Language, Guided Play, Talk, Achievement, Acquisition, Contexts, Support, English, Spatial Language, Guided Play, Talk, Achievement, Acquisition, causal language, Contexts, causal input, Support, play types, English, causal verb comprehension

Turkish CoHE Thesis Center URL

Fields of Science

Citation

2

WoS Q

Q2

Scopus Q

Q1

Source

Journal of Child Language

Volume

50

Issue

1

Start Page

177

End Page

197