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Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties (2022)
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Łuniewska, M., Wójcik, M., Kołak, J., Mieszkowska, K., Wodniecka, Z., & Hamana, E. (2022). Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties. Language Acquisition, 29(2), 135-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1973475

Word knowledge and the speed of word processing in monolingual children and adults are influenced by word properties, such as the age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, and frequency. Understanding how different properties of words contribute to the... Read More about Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties.

Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children (2022)
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Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Norgate, S., & Monaghan, P. (2022). Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children. Computers and education open, 3, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2022.100102

Touchscreen apps have the potential to teach children important early skills including oral language. However, there is little empirical data assessing the educational potential of children's apps in the app market or how apps link to theories of cog... Read More about Assessing the educational potential and language content of touchscreen apps for preschool children.

Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech (2022)
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Kolak, J., Monaghan, P., & Taylor, G. (2022). Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 28, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000198

Language in touchscreen apps could be useful as an additional source of children’s language input, alongside child directed speech (CDS) and books. Here we performed the first analysis of language in apps, as compared with books and CDS. We analysed... Read More about Language in educational apps for pre-schoolers. A comparison of grammatical constructions and psycholinguistic features in apps, books and child directed speech.

Parental report via a mobile app in the context of early language trajectories : StarWords study protocol (2022)
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Mieszkowska, K., Krajewski, G., Sobota, K., Dynak, A., Kolak, J., Krysztofiak, M., …Haman, E. (2022). Parental report via a mobile app in the context of early language trajectories : StarWords study protocol. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(5), e3067. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053067

Social sciences researchers emphasize that new technologies can overcome the limitations of small and homogenous samples. In research on early language development, which often uses parental reports, taking the testing online might be particularly co... Read More about Parental report via a mobile app in the context of early language trajectories : StarWords study protocol.

Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems? (2022)
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Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Bent, E., & Monaghan, P. (2022). Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems?. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(5), 1262-1282. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13199

In the present paper, we assess whether website rating systems are useful for selecting educational apps for preschool age children. We selected the 10 highest scoring and 10 lowest scoring apps for 2–4-year-olds from two widely used websites (Good A... Read More about Selecting educational apps for preschool children : how useful are website app rating systems?.

A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021) (2022)
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Bidgood, A., Taylor, G., Kolak, J., Bent, E., & Hickman, N. (2022). A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021). Infant and child development, https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2292

Orben (2021) proposed a ‘Digital Diet’ approach to thinking about children's consumption of digital media. Here, we consider the Digital Diet with a focus on young children under 5. As well as discussing how Type and Amount apply to this age group, w... Read More about A balanced Digital Diet for under 5s: a commentary on Orben (2021).

Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK (2020)
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Kolak, J., Norgate, S., Monaghan, P., & Taylor, G. (2021). Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK. Journal of Children and Media, 15(3), 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2020.1844776

Selecting high quality apps can be challenging for caregivers and educators. We here develop tools evaluating educational potential of apps for preschool children. In Study 1, we developed two complementary evaluation tools tailored to different audi... Read More about Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK.

Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian (2019)
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Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Vihman, V., Engelmann, F., Lieven, E., Pine, J., …Ambridge, B. (2019). Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 169-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2019.04.004

The aim of this large-scale, preregistered, cross-linguistic study was to mediate between theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphology, which lie along a continuum from rule-based to analogy-based. Across three morphologically rich language... Read More about Language-general and language-specific phenomena in the acquisition of inflectional noun morphology: A cross-linguistic elicited-production study of Polish, Finnish and Estonian.

How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages (2019)
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Engelmann, F., Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Szreder, M., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., …Lieven, E. (2019). How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages. Cognitive Psychology, 110, 30-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.02.001

Abstract The aim of the present work was to develop a computational model of how children acquire inflectional morphology for marking person and number; one of the central challenges in language development. First, in order to establish which putati... Read More about How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages.

Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods (2017)
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Hansen, P., Luniewska, M., Simonsen, H., Haman, E., Mieszkowska, K., Kolak, J., & Wodniecka, Z. (2017). Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(2), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917733067

Abstract Purpose: As a contribution to the endeavour of developing appropriate tools for bilingual language assessment, this paper investigates the concurrence between two new tools from the recent COST Action IS0804 (Bi-SLI), and the differences b... Read More about Picture-based vocabulary assessment versus parental questionnaires: A cross-linguistic study of bilingual assessment methods.

How Does L1 and L2 Exposure Impact L1 Performance in Bilingual Children? Evidence from Polish-English Migrants to the United Kingdom (2017)
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Haman, E., Wodniecka, Z., Marecka, M., Szewczyk, J., Bialecka-Pikul, M., Otinowska, A., …Forys-Nogala, M. (2017). How Does L1 and L2 Exposure Impact L1 Performance in Bilingual Children? Evidence from Polish-English Migrants to the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01444

Most studies on bilingual language development focus on children’s second language (L2). Here, we investigated first language (L1) development of Polish-English early migrant bilinguals in four domains: vocabulary, grammar, phonological processing, a... Read More about How Does L1 and L2 Exposure Impact L1 Performance in Bilingual Children? Evidence from Polish-English Migrants to the United Kingdom.

Home Language Will Not Take Care of Itself: Vocabulary Knowledge in Trilingual Children in the United Kingdom (2017)
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Mieszkowska, K., Luniewska, M., Kolak, J., Kacprzak, A., Wodniecka, Z., & Haman, E. (2017). Home Language Will Not Take Care of Itself: Vocabulary Knowledge in Trilingual Children in the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01358

Language input is crucial for language acquisition and especially for children’s vocabulary size. Bilingual children receive reduced input in each of their languages, compared to monolinguals, and are reported to have smaller vocabularies, at least i... Read More about Home Language Will Not Take Care of Itself: Vocabulary Knowledge in Trilingual Children in the United Kingdom.

Dwujęzyczność u progu edukacji szkolnej – interdyscyplinarny projekt badawczy (2012)
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Otwinowska, A., Banasik, N., Bialecka-Pikul, M., Kiebzak-Mandera, D., Kus, K., Miekisz, A., …Haman, E. (2012). Dwujęzyczność u progu edukacji szkolnej – interdyscyplinarny projekt badawczy. Neofilolog, 7-25. https://doi.org/10.14746/n.2012.39.1.2

The paper describes a Polish research project which aims at creating a cognitive and linguistic profile of the Polish-English bilingual child at the school entrance age. With the increase in the number of bilingual children due to economic migrations... Read More about Dwujęzyczność u progu edukacji szkolnej – interdyscyplinarny projekt badawczy.