Sprognyheder

»VRÆÆÆÆÆÆÆÆL!« De fleste nybagte forældre har prøvet at stå på hovedet, når deres lille guldklump ikke er til at trøste. Måske vil han have sutten? Måske skal han skiftes? Eller han er måske sulten? Tørstig? Træt?

 Last week in an EU:Sci podcast, Christos Christodoulopoulos challenged me to find a correlation between the basic word order of the language people use and the number of children they have.  This was off the back of a number of spurious correlations with which readers of Replicated Typo will be familiar.  Here are the results! First, I do a straightforward test of whether word order is correlated with the number of children you have.  This comes out as significant!  I wonder if  having more children hanging around affects the adaptive pressures on langauge?  However, I then show that this result is undermined by discovering that there are other linguistic variables that are even better predictors. I used the World Values Survey:  a large database of survey results from thousands of people around the world, including what language they speak and how many children they have.  I then linked this up with linguistic typology data from the World Atlas of [...]

I morges bad min datter om sin farvelægge. Jeg sluttede min frem til at det måtte være farvelade hun mente, men som det så tit er med børnesprog, var det jo mere logisk hvis det hed en farvelægge: Når man farvelægger, må det man gør det med vel hedde en farvelægge.

Jeg blev kontaktet af TV 2, fordi aviserne vil bringe en tankevækkende nyhed. Som jeg forstår det, har en journalist fra Syddansk Universitet lavet en undersøgelse blandt indvandrere fra ikkevestlige lande. Ifølge undersøgelsen kan 60 % af børnene ikke dansk, når de begynder i danske skoler.

60 procent har svært ved dansk, når de starter i skole. Eksperter advarer om, at tosprogede bliver hægtet af.

Børn med sproglige udfordringer bliver i København fordelt på særlige modtagerskoler, og børnene skal tage en obligatorisk sprogtest. Men børnehaveklasselederne på to af modtagerskolerne finder opgaven med test og sprogstimulering uoverkommelig.

Säuglinge sind viel klüger als gedacht. Kinder lernen schon im Mutterleib. Bevor sie selbst sprechen, wissen sie schon viel über Sprache.

En af ti københavnske børnehavebørn der har store sprogproblemer, er etnisk danske.

Synthesised speech has grown more and more similar to human speech. Yet children communicating via a speech device are still forced to use a synthetic adult voice," explains Magne Lunde, Managing Director of Media LT, a company developing tools to assist disabled persons.

Søre skogvei barnehage i Bergen er trolig den i landet der flest barn har et annet morsmål enn norsk. Trygve Lakseelvs etnisk norske datter snakker i perioder mest med ansatte, siden de andre barna snakker et utenlandsk språk. – Det bekymrer meg fordi det er i denne alderen språket hennes skal blomstre, sier han.

En undersøgelse foretaget af Anvendt KommunalForskning (AKF) fastslår forskelle i tilgangen til modersmålsundervisningen af indvandrerelever i Danmark og Sverige. Anvendt KommunalForsknings undersøgelse viser at der er stor forskel på de rammer der sættes for modersmålsundervisningen i Danmark og Sverige. I Sverige har modersmålsundervisningen nemlig høj status, og hvor det i Danmark er op til kommunerne selv om de vil tilbyde undervisningen, er det i Sverige obligatorisk.

Årets Læseinitiativpris er givet til to pædagoger i Ballerup for deres projekt med interaktiv oplæsning med tosprogede vuggestuebørn.

Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving students, a new study found.

Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills. Most parents are naturals at playing the fool with their kids, says a new research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). However parents who feel they may need a little help in doing this can learn to develop these life skills with their tots.

Research has established that taking folic acid supplements during pregnancy reduces the risk of bearing a child with neural tube defects, but little is known about the relationship between prenatal folic acid and neurodevelopment after birth. A collaborative study between investigators at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has now reported that mothers who took folic acid supplements from 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception reported a significantly lower prevalence of severe language delay in their children at age 3. The study was based in a unique Norwegian pregnancy cohort often referred to as "MoBa."

Use of folic acid supplements by women in Norway in the period 4 weeks before to 8 weeks after conception was associated with a reduced risk of the child having severe language delay at age 3 years, according to a study in the October 12 issue of JAMA.

Canadian scientists who specialize in learning, memory and language in children have found exciting evidence that pre-schoolers can improve their verbal intelligence after only 20 days of classroom instruction using interactive, music-based cognitive training cartoons.

Ordblindhed er et alvorligt problem for mange mennesker. Desværre bliver det ikke altid opdaget i rette tid. »Traditionen i norske skoler ved mistanken om ordblindhed er 'vent og se'.

"Parents don't need to worry about their children becoming 'confused' or 'delayed' because of the demands of dual language learning. Rather, parents should be excited about the increased opportunities their children will have as a result of knowing more than one language."

Knagerækkerne på skolens lange gange er endnu tomme forud for skolestart på mandag, men nede ved biblioteket er en lille forsamling i lyseblå T-shirts allerede mødt. I denne uge afholder Jersie Skole i Solrød 'Læsecamp' for 12 elever fra 2.-4.kl.

Hvis det stod til den fremtrædende amerikanske psykolog og lingvist, professor Judith Kroll fra University of Pennsylvania, skulle alle børn lære to sprog.»Og jo tidligere jo bedre,« som hun siger

I starten af ugen var der en artikel i politiken om at danske børn lærer deres modersmål langsommere end børn i andre lande, fordi vi har så mange vokaler.

Danske børn er længere om at lære talesprog end jævnaldrende i andre lande.