https://science-res.com/index.php/jclad <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong> ISSN: 2148-1997</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development - JCLAD</strong> is a triennial (three times in a year (2024 on)), double-blind peer reviewed journal which publishes original research papers in the field of child language acquisition and development.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Studies designed to test a part or the whole of language acquisition theories; those bringing forth new hypotheses related to the nature of language acquisition and those which set bridges between language acquisition and other disciplines are given priority. Studies which take a descriptive approach to the nature of language acquisition and development are also welcome. </p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to original research works, the journal encourages submissions of high quality manuscripts including literature reviews and theoretical discussions, book reviews, responses/critiques and invited commentaries.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The JCLAD, established in <strong>2013.</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Editor:</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Prof. Dr. Mehmet OZCAN (Emeritus)</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Psycholinguistics, Child Language Development</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">ELT Department at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University / Turkiye</p> Science-res Publishing en-US Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development - JCLAD 2148-1997 https://science-res.com/index.php/jclad/article/view/175 <p>Coarticulation is the articulation of two or more speech sounds together, so that one influences the other. Coarticulation is language dependent and can vary from children to adult. Studies in the past have shown that children have more coarticulation than adults; adults have more coarticulation than children; children and adult have similar coarticulatory patterns. Malayalam is a Dravidian language with extra lip rounding feature and also with five place of nasal articulation. The present study investigated the development of anticipatory coarticulation of /u/ in typically developing Malayalam speaking children in the age range of 3-6 years. The data was collected from 60 participants using bisyllabic meaningful words depicted in flashcards. Data were recorded using Sony audio recorder and analyses were done using PRAAT software. Results showed that children did not follow a particular developmental trend, but 4.6-5 years old children showed a different trend compared to children in other age groups.</p> Litna A. Varghese Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development - JCLAD https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-12-30 2024-12-30 1105 1115 10.5281/zenodo.14744204 https://science-res.com/index.php/jclad/article/view/170 <p>This study aimed to investigate the innovations in speech development of Persian speaking children based on naturalistic paradigms of child language research. To this end, following a longitudinal observation approach, the naturalistic and experimental aspects of child language acquisition were examined as it was considered to have the advantage of producing spontaneous natural data. The data consisted of utterances by a number of children at an age range of 1;10 to 4;10 since it is considered a productive period for the creation of new words. The participants of the study included the researcher's own son, his brother-in-law's son, his niece and nephew, his neighbors' children, as well as a few children from a child-care center in Noshahr, Iran. To investigate the innovations in speech development of these children, instances of deletion, substitution, and inversion as well as creative processes such as making negative verbs, innovative rule-making in the utterances, and rule-overgeneralizing for inserting inflections were collected and recorded. The findings of this study chiefly support Clark's (1981) argument that creativity in children's speech results from the need of finding an acceptable word to fill a gap in the lexicon. Moreover, the findings confirm Lust’s (2006) claim that children rely on their creative theory construction as a compensatory tool and productive device to create new words. Alternatively, the innovations that do not conform to the adult forms indicate that children have not learned the exceptions to the rules and less productive inflections conveying the same meaning; or may tend to convey the message from their own perspectives and to encode the events accordingly. The small sample used was a limitation of this study, nonetheless to arrive at broader generalizations, more supporting evidence from conducting studies on children’s differences, their social interaction with others, and the role of linguistic input are recommended.</p> Samad Mirza Suzani Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Child Language Acquisition and Development - JCLAD https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2024-12-30 2024-12-30 1116 1136 10.5281/zenodo.14781542