articleFirst LanguageJan 28, 2022HYBRID OA

How diverse is child language acquisition research?

EKEvan KiddRGRowena Garcia

Australian National University · Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics · +1 more institution

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Abstract

A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and the next 50 years represents the last chance we have to document acquisition in many of them. Here, we take stock of the last 45 years of research published in the four main child language acquisition journals: Journal of Child Language, First Language, Language Acquisition and Language Learning and Development. We coded each article for several variables, including (1) participant group (mono vs multilingual), (2) language(s), (3) topic(s) and (4) country of author affiliation,…

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  • Language acquisition
  • Linguistics
  • Second-language acquisition
  • First language
  • Computer science
  • Psychology
  • Mathematics education
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