Twila Tardif

University of Michigan, Psychology, Faculty Member

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Preschoolers’ appreciation of speaker vocal affect as a cue to referential intent

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010

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Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers

Developmental Psychology, Apr 1, 2022

The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Manda... more The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and their caregivers, whose education ranged from third grade (elementary school) or below to postgraduate with a median of high school. Our data showed a clear order of grammatical marking acquisition among these children and supported findings on the linguistic specificity of morphological development such that early- and late-acquired markers in Mandarin are not acquired in the same order as English or other languages. Negative "mei2," "bu4," possessive "-de," classifiers, and the aspect marker "le" were the earliest-acquired markers, followed by modals, negative "bie2," adverbs, sentence final particles, resultative verb compounds, and aspect markers "guo4" and "yao4." Complex clauses and the aspect marker "zheng4" were acquired the latest. Furthermore, consistent with previous cross-linguistic studies, the development patterns of a wide range of Mandarin grammatical markers indicate that markers that are more perceptually salient and obligatory, have clear form-meaning mappings, and often appear in isolation or utterance-final position were acquired earlier than others. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621994233 – Supplemental material for Are Preschoolers' Neurobiological Stress Systems Responsive to Culturally Relevant Contexts?

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621994233 for Are Preschoolers' Neurobiol... more Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621994233 for Are Preschoolers' Neurobiological Stress Systems Responsive to Culturally Relevant Contexts? by Ka I Ip, Barbara Felt, Li Wang, Mayumi Karasawa, Hidemi Hirabayashi, Midori Kazama, Sheryl Olson, Alison Miller and Twila Tardif in Psychological Science

Chinese Context Corpus

Applied Psycholinguistics 29 (2008), 437–462 Printed in the United States of America

doi:10.1017/S014271640808020X What’s in a word? Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge ... more

What’s in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children’s word reading development

Child Development, 2021

This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chin... more This study investigates the cross-linguistic transfer of literacy skills in Spanish-English, Chinese-English bilingual, and English monolingual children (N = 283, 5-10 years). Research question 1 examines English literacy and asks how phonological and morpho-semantic skills contribute to word reading as a function of children's language background. Structural equation modeling revealed contrasting bilingual effects: compared to English monolinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals relied more on phonological awareness in word reading, whereas Chinese-English bilinguals relied more on lexical knowledge. Research question 2 examines relations between bilinguals' heritage language proficiency and English literacy. Results revealed direct and indirect effects of heritage language meta-linguistic skills on English word reading. The study yields implications for reading theories and instructional practices in optimizing literacy in linguistically diverse children.

The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11

Learning and Instruction, 2017

The present longitudinal study investigated the predictive power of preschool linguistic skills a... more The present longitudinal study investigated the predictive power of preschool linguistic skills and early family factors on children's comprehensive literacy skills at the end of primary school in 262 Chinese children. The results indicated that a substantial (20e34%) share of variance of 5th grade (age 11) literacy skills in Chinese could be explained by early family factors (age 3) and linguistic skills (age 3eage 5). Family socioeconomic status and parent-child reading tuition were associated with different literacy measures. A differential pattern of prediction was also observed among different literacy skills. Furthermore, path analyses indicated that the relationships between early family factors and literacy skills at age 11 were mediated by specific linguistic and cognitive skills at preschool.

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In Memoriam: Jing Qicheng, 1926-2008

PsycEXTRA Dataset

Language Loss and the Crisis of Cognition: Between Socio- and Psycholinguistics

Language, 1998

Page 1. K. Dallas Kenny Language Loss and the Crisis of Cognition Between Socio-and Psycholinguis... more

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Two experiments on preschoolers ’ understanding of the effects of exposure on knowing-that and kn... more Two experiments on preschoolers ’ understanding of the effects of exposure on knowing-that and knowing-how were conducted with 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children (N 388) in 2 locations: a small midwestern city in the United States and a suburban area of Hong Kong, China. By using both English-and Chinese-speaking samples, the authors examined differences in children’s understanding of knowing-that and knowing-how as well as the impact of different types of linguistic markers on the understanding of these concepts. Across both studies, in both locations, and for judging the knowledge of self or of others, children’s understanding for knowing-that preceded their understanding for knowing-how. Implications of these findings both for universal patterns of theory-of-mind development and for how culture may impact on that development are discussed.

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Are preschoolers’ neurobiological stress systems responsive to culturally-relevant contexts?

Adults are biologically responsive to context, and their responses to particular situations may d... more Adults are biologically responsive to context, and their responses to particular situations may differ across cultures. However, are preschoolers’ biological systems also responsive to situational contexts and cultures? Here we show that children’s neurobiological stress responses, as indexed by salivary cortisol, are activated and responsive to psychosocial stressors relevant to their socio-cultural emphases. By examining cortisol changes across different contexts among 138 preschoolers living in the United States, China and Japan, we found that an achievement-related stressor elicited an increased cortisol response among Chinese preschoolers, whereas interpersonal-related stressors elicited an increased cortisol response among Japanese preschoolers. Contrastingly, US preschoolers showed decreased cortisol responses after these stressors, but consistently showed higher levels of anticipatory responses to separation at the beginning of each session. Our findings suggest that childre...

Multiple Domains Interdisciplinary Analysis of Country Indicators

IUSSP, Oct 30, 2017

Chinese Beijing Corpus

Imagine that!: Imageability predicts verb learning in Chinese children. Journal of Child Language Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children

Delaware for their assistance on this paper. We also thank all the participants in China. This re... more Delaware for their assistance on this paper. We also thank all the participants in China. This research was funded by joint grants to the second and third authors: From NSF, Grants SBR9601306 and SBR9615391 and from NIH, RO1HD050199. The Mandarin CDI data were collected with the assistance of the Research Grants Council of Hong

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Dynamic Systems Modeling of Cortisol Stress Response

ASME 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Parts A and B, 2008

This paper presents preliminary results for using dynamic systems models to describe cortisol res... more This paper presents preliminary results for using dynamic systems models to describe cortisol responses to stressful events. Linear, single-input single-output discrete-time models are used. Choices that must be made regarding interpolation and input modeling are discussed in some detail. Results are presented that indicate an impulse model for the stressful input gives a better fit than no input, and that logarithmic transformation of the data before model fitting gives no better results than using the raw data. The issue of stability of the resulting models is discussed. In addition, the paper discusses how the resulting dynamic systems models can be used for statistical analysis, as well as for predicting future stress responses.

Working Memory and Reading Skill Re-examined

Attention and Performance XII, 2016

Introduction 106 Experiment 1 108 Experiment 2 118 General Discussion 122 References 123 Referenc... more Introduction 106 Experiment 1 108 Experiment 2 118 General Discussion 122 References 123 Reference Notes 125 6. Form-priming with Masked Primes: The Best Match Hypothesis 127 Kenneth I. Forster Abstract 127 Introduction 127 Experiment 1 131 Experiment 2 136 Experiment 3 140 General Discussion 142 References 145 Reference Note 146 CONTENTS 7. Record-based Word Recognition 147

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Prenatal Lead Exposure and Infant Sensory Function

ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2014

Background- Lead (Pb), a well-known neurotoxicant, is associated with poorer cognitive, behaviora... more

[The related factors influencing development of language understanding and expression of early-children]

Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine], 2005

OBJECTIVE To assess the level of language understanding and expression of healthy children aged f... more OBJECTIVE To assess the level of language understanding and expression of healthy children aged from 8 to 16 months in urban Beijing and to investigate the children's physical and psychological development conditions and social and economic status of children's family as to identifying the related factors to children's language development and providing a basis for instructing parents child-rearing and promoting early children language development. METHODS A quantitative Cross-sectional Study was made. The parents or care givers of 636 healthy young children, randomly stratified and selected in two districts in Beijing were interviewed. T-test was used to compare the scores of language understanding and expression between boys and girls in the same age. Single and multiple factors analysis were used so as to find out the related factors. RESULTS For boys, the average scores of language were respectively 115.0 for 8 months, 243.0 for 12 months and 410.6 for 16 months; for...

I Know (That) Therefore I Think: Preschoolers' Understanding of Knowing That, Knowing How and False Belief

Chinese communicative development inventories: user's guide and manual

Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong Research Grants Council project: ... more

Preschoolers’ appreciation of speaker vocal affect as a cue to referential intent

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010

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Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers

Developmental Psychology, Apr 1, 2022

sj-docx-1-pss-10.1177_0956797621994233 – Supplemental material for Are Preschoolers' Neurobiological Stress Systems Responsive to Culturally Relevant Contexts?

Chinese Context Corpus

Applied Psycholinguistics 29 (2008), 437–462 Printed in the United States of America

doi:10.1017/S014271640808020X What’s in a word? Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge ... more

What’s in a word? Cross‐linguistic influences on Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilingual children’s word reading development

Child Development, 2021

The influence of early linguistic skills and family factors on literacy acquisition in Chinese children: Follow-up from age 3 to age 11

Learning and Instruction, 2017

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In Memoriam: Jing Qicheng, 1926-2008

PsycEXTRA Dataset

Language Loss and the Crisis of Cognition: Between Socio- and Psycholinguistics

Language, 1998

Page 1. K. Dallas Kenny Language Loss and the Crisis of Cognition Between Socio-and Psycholinguis... more

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Are preschoolers’ neurobiological stress systems responsive to culturally-relevant contexts?

Multiple Domains Interdisciplinary Analysis of Country Indicators

IUSSP, Oct 30, 2017

Chinese Beijing Corpus

Imagine that!: Imageability predicts verb learning in Chinese children. Journal of Child Language Imageability predicts the age of acquisition of verbs in Chinese children

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Dynamic Systems Modeling of Cortisol Stress Response

ASME 2008 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Parts A and B, 2008

Working Memory and Reading Skill Re-examined

Attention and Performance XII, 2016

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Prenatal Lead Exposure and Infant Sensory Function

ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2014

Background- Lead (Pb), a well-known neurotoxicant, is associated with poorer cognitive, behaviora... more

[The related factors influencing development of language understanding and expression of early-children]

Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine], 2005

I Know (That) Therefore I Think: Preschoolers' Understanding of Knowing That, Knowing How and False Belief

Chinese communicative development inventories: user's guide and manual

Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee (Hong Kong Research Grants Council project: ... more

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