College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China The present study analyzes the English diaries written by a young Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learner over a ...

1 Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. 2 Child Development Center PALETTE, Social Welfare Organization SUZURAN NO KAI, Kanagawa, Japan. 3 Faculty of ...

Abstract: By three years of age, children are supposed to start learning to understand syntactic structures, and at around five years of age, they are reported to be able to infer a syntactic category ...

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Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Lexical development is at the heart of language acquisition. In many languages, this development is inherently involved with the emergence, growth, and consolidation of morphological systematicity, ...