Maia Julieta Migdalek
Biographic Data
| ID | 2260026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maia Julieta Migdalek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maia Julieta |
| FAMILY NAME | Migdalek |
| SIGNATURE | MIGDALEK M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5040-6453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children’s Communicative Environments
This study examines variation sets (VS) – structured repetitions of words in different morphosyntactic contexts – in child-directed speech (CDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) across two communities (Argentinian Spanish and North American English) and socioeconomic groups. Drawing on naturalistic recordings from 101 families, results show that VS are more frequent in CDS than in ADS. In Argentinian Spanish, they are more prevalent in mid…
A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences
We present an exploratory cross-linguistic analysis of the quantity of target-child-directed speech and adult-directed speech in North American English (US & Canadian), United Kingdom English, Argentinian Spanish, Tseltal (Tenejapa, Mayan), and Yélî Dnye (Rossel Island, Papuan), using annotations from 69 children aged 2–36 months. Using a novel methodological approach, our cross-linguistic and cross-cultural findings support prior work suggesting…
Diferencias en la complejidad sintáctica y diversidad léxica de enunciados con distinta función pragmática en el habla dirigida a bebés argentinos
Numerosos trabajos han estudiado las características lingüísticas e interactivas en el habla dirigida al niño (HDN) en tanto pueden incidir en el desarrollo del lenguaje infantil (HOFF-GINSBERG, 1986). Sin embargo, han sido muy pocos los estudios que han atendido a la relación entre estas propiedades del HDN, distintos teóricos han comenzado a enfatizar en la importancia de abordar el estudio del input lingüístico de modo multidimensional (ROWE; …
Other children’s words in the linguistic environment of infants and young children from distinct social groups in Argentina ( Las palabras de otros niños en el entorno lingüístico de bebés y niños peq…
This present research analyses the linguistic environmental setting in homes of children under the age of two years from different social groups and looks at the extent to which the speech from other children contributes to shaping that environment. The corpus includes recordings of spontaneous speech from middle-class households in residential urban areas, from lower socioeconomic classes in marginalized urban areas and from impoverished semi-ru…
Nouns and verbs in the linguistic environment of Argentinian toddlers: Socioeconomic and context-related differences
This article examines the input to Argentinian Spanish-learning children from low and middle socioeconomic status (SES). It aims to determine whether the vocabulary composition (nouns and verbs) of their input varies as a function of SES, the addressee and other contextual variables such as the type of activity and the pragmatic orientation of the utterances. Thirty children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hour…
Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb meaning hold up? Testing the structure mapping account over spontaneous speech to Spanish-learning children
Experimental research has shown that English-learning children as young as 19 months, as well as children learning other languages (e.g., Mandarin), infer some aspects of verb meanings by mapping the nominal elements in the utterance onto participants in the event expressed by the verb. The present study assessed this structure or analogical mapping mechanism (SAMM) on naturalistic speech in the linguistic environment of 20 Spanish-learning infan…
Narration, argumentation and explanation: A study of the discourse units in spontaneous conversations at mealtimes ( Narración, argumentación y explicación: un estudio de las unidades de discurso en c…
The goal of this article is to contribute to our knowledge of the discursive environment of four-year-old children in which narration, argumentation and explanation occur. Mastery of these discursive forms is a requirement for participating in classroom practices. Even though these discourse units are intertwined in everyday interactions, previous studies prioritized studying them in isolation without examining how they are used together to shape…
La Génesis de la Argumentación. Un Estudio con Niños de 3 a 5 Años en Distintos Contextos de Juego
This work aims to analyze the development of the argumentative strategies in three, four and five years old children. In a previous study we developed a system of categories that conceptualize the argumentative strategies used by children of this age. In this study we analyze the argumentative strategies as well as the linguistic resources used by the children in disputes that occurred during play situations at kindergarten. The analysis consider…
Narration, argumentation and explanation: A study of the discourse units in spontaneous conversations at mealtimes ( Narración, argumentación y explicación: un estudio de las unidades de discurso en c…
The goal of this article is to contribute to our knowledge of the discursive environment of four-year-old children in which narration, argumentation and explanation occur. Mastery of these discursive forms is a requirement for participating in classroom practices. Even though these discourse units are intertwined in everyday interactions, previous studies prioritized studying them in isolation without examining how they are used together to shape…
La Génesis de la Argumentación. Un Estudio con Niños de 3 a 5 Años en Distintos Contextos de Juego
This work aims to analyze the development of the argumentative strategies in three, four and five years old children. In a previous study we developed a system of categories that conceptualize the argumentative strategies used by children of this age. In this study we analyze the argumentative strategies as well as the linguistic resources used by the children in disputes that occurred during play situations at kindergarten. The analysis consider…
Nouns and verbs in the linguistic environment of Argentinian toddlers: Socioeconomic and context-related differences
This article examines the input to Argentinian Spanish-learning children from low and middle socioeconomic status (SES). It aims to determine whether the vocabulary composition (nouns and verbs) of their input varies as a function of SES, the addressee and other contextual variables such as the type of activity and the pragmatic orientation of the utterances. Thirty children (mean: 14.3 months) and their families were audio-recorded for four hour…
Do simple syntactic heuristics to verb meaning hold up? Testing the structure mapping account over spontaneous speech to Spanish-learning children
Experimental research has shown that English-learning children as young as 19 months, as well as children learning other languages (e.g., Mandarin), infer some aspects of verb meanings by mapping the nominal elements in the utterance onto participants in the event expressed by the verb. The present study assessed this structure or analogical mapping mechanism (SAMM) on naturalistic speech in the linguistic environment of 20 Spanish-learning infan…
Narration, argumentation and explanation: A study of the discourse units in spontaneous conversations at mealtimes ( Narración, argumentación y explicación: un estudio de las unidades de discurso en c…
The goal of this article is to contribute to our knowledge of the discursive environment of four-year-old children in which narration, argumentation and explanation occur. Mastery of these discursive forms is a requirement for participating in classroom practices. Even though these discourse units are intertwined in everyday interactions, previous studies prioritized studying them in isolation without examining how they are used together to shape…
Other children’s words in the linguistic environment of infants and young children from distinct social groups in Argentina ( Las palabras de otros niños en el entorno lingüístico de bebés y niños peq…
This present research analyses the linguistic environmental setting in homes of children under the age of two years from different social groups and looks at the extent to which the speech from other children contributes to shaping that environment. The corpus includes recordings of spontaneous speech from middle-class households in residential urban areas, from lower socioeconomic classes in marginalized urban areas and from impoverished semi-ru…
Diferencias en la complejidad sintáctica y diversidad léxica de enunciados con distinta función pragmática en el habla dirigida a bebés argentinos
Numerosos trabajos han estudiado las características lingüísticas e interactivas en el habla dirigida al niño (HDN) en tanto pueden incidir en el desarrollo del lenguaje infantil (HOFF-GINSBERG, 1986). Sin embargo, han sido muy pocos los estudios que han atendido a la relación entre estas propiedades del HDN, distintos teóricos han comenzado a enfatizar en la importancia de abordar el estudio del input lingüístico de modo multidimensional (ROWE; …
A cross-linguistic examination of young children’s everyday language experiences
We present an exploratory cross-linguistic analysis of the quantity of target-child-directed speech and adult-directed speech in North American English (US & Canadian), United Kingdom English, Argentinian Spanish, Tseltal (Tenejapa, Mayan), and Yélî Dnye (Rossel Island, Papuan), using annotations from 69 children aged 2–36 months. Using a novel methodological approach, our cross-linguistic and cross-cultural findings support prior work suggesting…
Cross-Linguistic and Socioeconomic Differences in the Use of Variation Sets in Children’s Communicative Environments
This study examines variation sets (VS) – structured repetitions of words in different morphosyntactic contexts – in child-directed speech (CDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) across two communities (Argentinian Spanish and North American English) and socioeconomic groups. Drawing on naturalistic recordings from 101 families, results show that VS are more frequent in CDS than in ADS. In Argentinian Spanish, they are more prevalent in mid…
Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Socioeconomic status (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Context (archaeology) (2 works) · Geography (2 works)