Because of the continuous stream of touchscreen apps that are claimed to be educational
and the increasing use of touchscreen devices in early childhood, considerable attention is …

The use of touchscreen mobile devices in early childhood education has gained
considerable attention. Several studies have been conducted to investigate the impacts of …

Purpose Normal-hearing (NH) children acquire plural morphemes at different rates, with the
segmental allomorphs/–s,–z/(eg, cat-s) being acquired before the syllabic allomorph …

Previous intermodal preferential looking (IPL) studies have found that children learning
English acquire knowledge of plural allomorphs incrementally. The segmental plural/-s/(eg …

Australian Mandarin-English bilingual preschoolers must acquire linguistic structures that
occur only in the community language (eg, English inflectional grammar). This study …

Morphological knowledge is known to be positively associated with reading ability.
However, whether morphological knowledge affects children's learning of new orthographic …

This study examined the spoken narrative skills of a group of bilingual Mandarin–English
speaking 3–6-year-olds (N= 25) in Australia, using a remote online story-retell task. Bilingual …

Subject–verb (SV) agreement helps listeners interpret the number condition of ambiguous
nouns (The sheep is/are fat), yet it remains unclear whether young children use agreement …

Previous research has established that early second language (L2) learners in classroom
immersion may not ultimately produce all L2 morphosyntactic features as first language (L1) …

Bilingual preschoolers come from different home language environments. This presents a
challenge in understanding what constitutes “typical” bilingual language development …