E L Bavin
Biographic Data
| ID | 652198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Bavin |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bavin |
| SIGNATURE | BAVIN E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7580-149X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome
BACKGROUND: Language is foundational for neurodevelopment and quality of life, but an estimated 10% of children have a language disorder at age 5. Many children shift between classifications of typical and low language if assessed at multiple times in the early years, making it difficult to identify which children will have persisting difficulties and benefit most from support. This study aims to identify a parsimonious set of preschool indicator…
Spoken Expressive Vocabulary in 2-Year-Old Children with Hearing Loss: A Community Study
Through a cross-sectional community study of 2044 children aged 2 years, we (1) examine the impact of hearing loss on early spoken expressive vocabulary outcomes and (2) investigate how early intervention-related factors impact expressive vocabulary outcomes in children with hearing loss predominantly identified through universal newborn hearing screening. We used validated parent/caregiver-reported checklists from two longitudinal cohorts (302 c…
The Acquisition of Warlpiri
Warlpiri is a language of central Australia, spoken by about 3,000 people. There are significant numbers of Warlpiri speakers in other communities: Warrabri, Alice Springs, and Tennant Creek. Simpson has written a short grammar of Eastern Warlpiri and a vocabulary list. While most accounts focus on the Yuendumu variety of Warlpiri, Swartz discusses Lajamanu Warlpiri, concentrating in the later work on the pragmatic use of word order. The two morp…
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms
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Health‐related quality of life of children with low language from early childhood to adolescence: Results from an Australian longitudinal population‐based study
BACKGROUND: Low language abilities are known to be associated with significant adverse long-term outcomes. However, associations between low language and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are unclear. We aimed to (a) examine the association between low language and HRQoL from 4 to 13 years and (b) classify the children's trajectories of HRQoL and language and examine the association between language and HRQoL trajectories. METHODS: Data were…
Modelling the early expressive communicative trajectories of infants/toddlers with early cochlear implants
For children with normal hearing (NH), early communication skills predict vocabulary, a precursor to grammar. Growth in early communication skills of infants with cochlear implants (CIs) was investigated using the Early Communication Indicator (ECI), a play-based observation measure. Multilevel linear growth modelling on data from six ECI sessions held at three-monthly intervals revealed significant growth overall, with a non-significant slower g…
The Contributions of Memory and Vocabulary to Non-Verbal Ability Scores in Adolescents with Intellectual Disability
It is usually assumed that performance on non-verbal intelligence tests reflects visual cognitive processing and that aspects of working memory (WM) will be involved. However, the unique contribution of memory to non-verbal scores is not clear, nor is the unique contribution of vocabulary. Thus, we aimed to investigate these contributions. Non-verbal test scores for 17 individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and 39 children with typical dev…
Introduction: Special issue on atypical development
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The Development of Narrative by Warlpiri Children
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 1-13
Predictors of early precocious talking: A prospective population study
This study examines potential predictors of ‘precocious talking’ (expressive language ⩾90th percentile) at one and two years of age, and of ‘stability’ in precocious talking across both time periods, drawing on data from a prospective community cohort comprising over 1,800 children. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between precocious talking and the following potential predictors: gender, birth order, birth weight, non-Eng…
Testing Auditory Processing Skills and their Associations with Language in 4—5-year-olds
Infants’ auditory processing abilities have been shown to predict subsequent language development. In addition, poor auditory processing skills have been shown for some individuals with specific language impairment. Methods used in infant studies are not appropriate for use with young children, and neither are methods typically used to test auditory processing skills in specific language impairment (SLI). The objective in this study was to develo…
The Early Language in Victoria Study: Predicting vocabulary at age one and two years from gesture and object use
The Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have been used widely to document early communicative development. The paper reports on a large community sample of 1,447 children recruited from low, middle and high socioeconomic (SES) areas across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the extent to which communicative behaviours reported at 0 ; 8 and 1 ; 0 predicted vocabulary developme…
Lexical and referential influences on on-line spoken language comprehension: A comparison of adults and primary-school-age children
This paper reports on two studies investigating children's and adults' processing of sentences containing ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment. Study 1 used corpus data to investigate whether cues argued to be used by adults to resolve PP-attachment ambiguities are available in child-directed speech. Study 2 was an on-line reaction time study investigating the role of lexical and referential biases in syntactic ambiguity resolution b…
Lexical and referential cues to sentence interpretation: An investigation of children's interpretations of ambiguous sentences
This paper reports on an investigation of children's (aged 3;5–9;8) comprehension of sentences containing ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment. Results from a picture selection study ( N =90) showed that children use verb semantics and preposition type to resolve the ambiguity, with older children also showing sensitivity to the definiteness of the object NP as a cue to interpretation. Study 2 investigated three- and five-year-old ch…
First language acquisition
Eve V. Clark, First language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 515. Hb $90. Eve Clark's comprehensive book makes an important addition to those works already available on first language acquisition. A commendable feature is the inclusion of many non-English examples, although most are from English. In the field of language acquisition there has been an emphasis on cross-language comparisons over the past few years…
An investigation of the verbal abilities of children with imaginary companions
The purpose of this study was to investigate the language use of 40 children with imaginary companions (IC) and 40 children without imaginary companions (NIC) across two age levels: a younger group aged 4;0–5;11 and an older group aged 6;0–7;11. The study investigated the language of these children by examining their use of adverbial and relative clauses, complement clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and modal types. The findings indicated that,…
English-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: Evidence for General-Cognitive and Language-Specific Constraints on Development
Introduction: A functional approach to ellipsis
The papers in this issue discuss children's ellipsis of arguments, focusing on the interaction of discourse (or usage) with grammar and typology. Over the past years, many of the discussions on argument ellipsis in children's language were motivated by theoretical claims about universal grammar, and much of the discussion focused on subject ellipsis in an examination of the so-called pro-drop parameter. Research on the pro-drop parameter consider…
Ellipsis in Warlpiri children's narratives: An Analysis of Frog Stories
The paper reports on developmental aspects of the ellipsis of core lexical arguments in Warlpiri children's narratives. The children, aged from four to ten years, each told a frog story based on Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? (1969). Stories from six adults were used for comparison. Warlpiri allows ellipsis of lexical subject and object and employs bound pronominals (clitics) to register the number and person of subject and object, although third p…
S. E. M. Allen, Aspects of argument structure in Inuktitut. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1996. Pp. xiii+248
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Language Acquisition in Crosslinguistic Perspective
This review examines crosslinguistic research that has increased our understanding of the acquisition process over the past 15 years. It begins by outlining different aspects of the study of first language acquisition, for example, infants’ preverbal attention to language and strategies in segmenting language input. A major section of the review stresses the importance of ethnographic studies because acquisition must be considered in relation to …
Andrew Radford, Syntactic theory and the acquisition of English syntax. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. viii + 311
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Locative terms and Warlpiri acquisition
Cognitive complexity and complexity of linguistic structure have been found to influence the order of acquisition of locatives. In Warlpiri, locative terms are nominals and they are used in combination with a locative case marker on the reference object; directional affixes may be added to them. Data from a series of tests of Warlpiri children's comprehension and production of the Warlpiri expressions that may be translated as ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘under’…
Some lexical and morphological changes in Warlpiri
The first point I would like to stress in this chapter is that Warlpiri is not yet a dying language. The positive attitudes of the Warlpiri people towards their language and way of life encourage language maintenance. However, the young people are attracted by aspects of the non-Aboriginal way of life. The adoption of new ways, together with exposure to the English language, have led to changes in the language. There are many changes taking place…
Innovations and neutralizations in the Warlpiri pronominal system
The paradigm functions as a domain for certain processes of change. There can be changes in the number of grammatical categories or in the forms used to represent them. Thus, Benveniste (1968) contrasts change involving only the forms while the system remains the same (‘conservative’ change) with innovations in which there is change in the categories and the oppositions. In this paper, we will discuss both types of change in the Warlpiri pronomin…
English-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: Evidence for General-Cognitive and Language-Specific Constraints on Development
Ellipsis in Warlpiri children's narratives: An Analysis of Frog Stories
The paper reports on developmental aspects of the ellipsis of core lexical arguments in Warlpiri children's narratives. The children, aged from four to ten years, each told a frog story based on Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? (1969). Stories from six adults were used for comparison. Warlpiri allows ellipsis of lexical subject and object and employs bound pronominals (clitics) to register the number and person of subject and object, although third p…
Innovations and neutralizations in the Warlpiri pronominal system
The paradigm functions as a domain for certain processes of change. There can be changes in the number of grammatical categories or in the forms used to represent them. Thus, Benveniste (1968) contrasts change involving only the forms while the system remains the same (‘conservative’ change) with innovations in which there is change in the categories and the oppositions. In this paper, we will discuss both types of change in the Warlpiri pronomin…
Testing Auditory Processing Skills and their Associations with Language in 4—5-year-olds
Infants’ auditory processing abilities have been shown to predict subsequent language development. In addition, poor auditory processing skills have been shown for some individuals with specific language impairment. Methods used in infant studies are not appropriate for use with young children, and neither are methods typically used to test auditory processing skills in specific language impairment (SLI). The objective in this study was to develo…
Children's acquisition of Warlpiri: Comprehension of transitive sentences
Comprehension test results from children acquiring Warlpiri as a first language in the Yuendumu community indicate that the canonical transitive sentence is one with an ergative-absolutive verb. We hypoth- esize that the acquisition process is influenced by a number of properties of the language, properties including the presence of homophonous forms for some of the case endings, the use of three different case frames, the optional ellipsis of co…
Innovations and neutralizations in the Warlpiri pronominal system
The paradigm functions as a domain for certain processes of change. There can be changes in the number of grammatical categories or in the forms used to represent them. Thus, Benveniste (1968) contrasts change involving only the forms while the system remains the same (‘conservative’ change) with innovations in which there is change in the categories and the oppositions. In this paper, we will discuss both types of change in the Warlpiri pronomin…
Some lexical and morphological changes in Warlpiri
The first point I would like to stress in this chapter is that Warlpiri is not yet a dying language. The positive attitudes of the Warlpiri people towards their language and way of life encourage language maintenance. However, the young people are attracted by aspects of the non-Aboriginal way of life. The adoption of new ways, together with exposure to the English language, have led to changes in the language. There are many changes taking place…
Locative terms and Warlpiri acquisition
Cognitive complexity and complexity of linguistic structure have been found to influence the order of acquisition of locatives. In Warlpiri, locative terms are nominals and they are used in combination with a locative case marker on the reference object; directional affixes may be added to them. Data from a series of tests of Warlpiri children's comprehension and production of the Warlpiri expressions that may be translated as ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘under’…
Andrew Radford, Syntactic theory and the acquisition of English syntax. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. viii + 311
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Language Acquisition in Crosslinguistic Perspective
This review examines crosslinguistic research that has increased our understanding of the acquisition process over the past 15 years. It begins by outlining different aspects of the study of first language acquisition, for example, infants’ preverbal attention to language and strategies in segmenting language input. A major section of the review stresses the importance of ethnographic studies because acquisition must be considered in relation to …
S. E. M. Allen, Aspects of argument structure in Inuktitut. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1996. Pp. xiii+248
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: A functional approach to ellipsis
The papers in this issue discuss children's ellipsis of arguments, focusing on the interaction of discourse (or usage) with grammar and typology. Over the past years, many of the discussions on argument ellipsis in children's language were motivated by theoretical claims about universal grammar, and much of the discussion focused on subject ellipsis in an examination of the so-called pro-drop parameter. Research on the pro-drop parameter consider…
Ellipsis in Warlpiri children's narratives: An Analysis of Frog Stories
The paper reports on developmental aspects of the ellipsis of core lexical arguments in Warlpiri children's narratives. The children, aged from four to ten years, each told a frog story based on Mayer's Frog, Where Are You? (1969). Stories from six adults were used for comparison. Warlpiri allows ellipsis of lexical subject and object and employs bound pronominals (clitics) to register the number and person of subject and object, although third p…
An investigation of the verbal abilities of children with imaginary companions
The purpose of this study was to investigate the language use of 40 children with imaginary companions (IC) and 40 children without imaginary companions (NIC) across two age levels: a younger group aged 4;0–5;11 and an older group aged 6;0–7;11. The study investigated the language of these children by examining their use of adverbial and relative clauses, complement clauses, co-ordinating conjunctions and modal types. The findings indicated that,…
English-Speaking Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses: Evidence for General-Cognitive and Language-Specific Constraints on Development
Lexical and referential cues to sentence interpretation: An investigation of children's interpretations of ambiguous sentences
This paper reports on an investigation of children's (aged 3;5–9;8) comprehension of sentences containing ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment. Results from a picture selection study ( N =90) showed that children use verb semantics and preposition type to resolve the ambiguity, with older children also showing sensitivity to the definiteness of the object NP as a cue to interpretation. Study 2 investigated three- and five-year-old ch…
First language acquisition
Eve V. Clark, First language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 515. Hb $90. Eve Clark's comprehensive book makes an important addition to those works already available on first language acquisition. A commendable feature is the inclusion of many non-English examples, although most are from English. In the field of language acquisition there has been an emphasis on cross-language comparisons over the past few years…
Lexical and referential influences on on-line spoken language comprehension: A comparison of adults and primary-school-age children
This paper reports on two studies investigating children's and adults' processing of sentences containing ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachment. Study 1 used corpus data to investigate whether cues argued to be used by adults to resolve PP-attachment ambiguities are available in child-directed speech. Study 2 was an on-line reaction time study investigating the role of lexical and referential biases in syntactic ambiguity resolution b…
The Early Language in Victoria Study: Predicting vocabulary at age one and two years from gesture and object use
The Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have been used widely to document early communicative development. The paper reports on a large community sample of 1,447 children recruited from low, middle and high socioeconomic (SES) areas across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the extent to which communicative behaviours reported at 0 ; 8 and 1 ; 0 predicted vocabulary developme…
Predictors of early precocious talking: A prospective population study
This study examines potential predictors of ‘precocious talking’ (expressive language ⩾90th percentile) at one and two years of age, and of ‘stability’ in precocious talking across both time periods, drawing on data from a prospective community cohort comprising over 1,800 children. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between precocious talking and the following potential predictors: gender, birth order, birth weight, non-Eng…
Testing Auditory Processing Skills and their Associations with Language in 4—5-year-olds
Infants’ auditory processing abilities have been shown to predict subsequent language development. In addition, poor auditory processing skills have been shown for some individuals with specific language impairment. Methods used in infant studies are not appropriate for use with young children, and neither are methods typically used to test auditory processing skills in specific language impairment (SLI). The objective in this study was to develo…
The Development of Narrative by Warlpiri Children
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1985), pp. 1-13
Introduction: Special issue on atypical development
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Contributions of Memory and Vocabulary to Non-Verbal Ability Scores in Adolescents with Intellectual Disability
It is usually assumed that performance on non-verbal intelligence tests reflects visual cognitive processing and that aspects of working memory (WM) will be involved. However, the unique contribution of memory to non-verbal scores is not clear, nor is the unique contribution of vocabulary. Thus, we aimed to investigate these contributions. Non-verbal test scores for 17 individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and 39 children with typical dev…
Modelling the early expressive communicative trajectories of infants/toddlers with early cochlear implants
For children with normal hearing (NH), early communication skills predict vocabulary, a precursor to grammar. Growth in early communication skills of infants with cochlear implants (CIs) was investigated using the Early Communication Indicator (ECI), a play-based observation measure. Multilevel linear growth modelling on data from six ECI sessions held at three-monthly intervals revealed significant growth overall, with a non-significant slower g…
Health‐related quality of life of children with low language from early childhood to adolescence: Results from an Australian longitudinal population‐based study
BACKGROUND: Low language abilities are known to be associated with significant adverse long-term outcomes. However, associations between low language and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are unclear. We aimed to (a) examine the association between low language and HRQoL from 4 to 13 years and (b) classify the children's trajectories of HRQoL and language and examine the association between language and HRQoL trajectories. METHODS: Data were…
The Acquisition of Warlpiri
Warlpiri is a language of central Australia, spoken by about 3,000 people. There are significant numbers of Warlpiri speakers in other communities: Warrabri, Alice Springs, and Tennant Creek. Simpson has written a short grammar of Eastern Warlpiri and a vocabulary list. While most accounts focus on the Yuendumu variety of Warlpiri, Swartz discusses Lajamanu Warlpiri, concentrating in the later work on the pragmatic use of word order. The two morp…
The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms
Preview this article: The acquisition of Warlpiri kin terms, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.1.3.02bav-1.gif
Using machine‐learning methods to identify early‐life predictors of 11‐year language outcome
BACKGROUND: Language is foundational for neurodevelopment and quality of life, but an estimated 10% of children have a language disorder at age 5. Many children shift between classifications of typical and low language if assessed at multiple times in the early years, making it difficult to identify which children will have persisting difficulties and benefit most from support. This study aims to identify a parsimonious set of preschool indicator…
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