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Nieto, Carmen; Campos, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The development of copying behaviours of a group of infants from 9 to 15 months of age is analysed. These behaviours are classified according to their type (mimetic or imitated) and function (instrumental, social or hybrid). The function of the behaviours is derived from observable indicators linked to dyadic interaction. Mimetic behaviours are…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Infant Behavior, Psychomotor Skills
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Trevor K. M. Day; Arielle Borovsky; Donna Thal; Jed T. Elison – Developmental Science, 2025
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) are widely used, parent-report instruments of language acquisition. Here, we focus on the word-inventory sections of the instruments, and show two different approaches to modeling CDI data, based on real-world needs. First, we show that Words & Gestures data collected…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Children, Models
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Canault, Mélanie; Yamaguchi, Naomi; Kern, Sophie – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Cross-linguistic studies describing the syllabic structures of babbling productions agree on the high prevalence of the CV structure, but few have addressed the other types of syllables emerging during this pre-linguistic stage. However, studying the evolution of the distribution of syllabic structures during babbling would make it possible to…
Descriptors: French, Syllables, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Lauren Prather; Nancy Creaghead; Jennifer Vannest; Lisa Hunter; Amy Hobek; Tamika Odum; Mekibib Altaye; Juanita Lackey – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2025
Purpose: The lack of appropriate assessments affects populations presumed to be most at risk for speech and language concerns, one of them being children with a history of preterm birth. This study aims to examine whether cultural bias is present in two currently available language tests for Black children under 3 years of age: the Communication…
Descriptors: African American Children, Premature Infants, Evaluation Methods, Language Tests
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Lina Hashoul-Essa; Sharon Armon-Lotem – First Language, 2025
Research suggests that girls acquire language faster than boys, with gender differences most pronounced in vocabulary acquisition during early childhood. This study examines the role of gender in the acquisition of vocabulary and morphosyntax in Palestinian Arabic-speaking children aged 18 to 36 months. Using the Palestinian Arabic Communicative…
Descriptors: Arabic, Gender Differences, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Miranda Gómez Díaz; Laia Fibla; Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui; Krista Byers-Heinlein – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Sometime before their second birthday, many children have a period of rapid expressive vocabulary growth called the vocabulary spurt. Theories of the underlying mechanisms differ: Accumulator models emphasize the accumulation of experience with words over time to yield a spurtlike pattern, while cognitive models attribute the spurt to cognitive…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism
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Artis, Jonet; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The goal of this work was to examine the semantic and syntactic properties of the vocabularies of autistic and non-autistic infants and toddlers to see if children in these two groups know different kinds of words. We focused on both receptive and expressive vocabularies. For expressive vocabulary, we looked only at the "active"…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics
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Alshaimaa Abdelwahab; Caroline Floccia; Samuel Forbes; Zakiyah Alsiddiqi; Khalid Al-Shdifat; Cristina McKean; Thair Odeh; Anastasia Trebacz; Ghada Khattab – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Assessing early language skills through parental report is a cost-effective way to screen for language delays when resources are scarce. A pan-Arabic lexeme approach was tested by extending the Egyptian adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) to Jordan and Palestine in infants aged 8-30 months (Arabic…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Screening Tests, Infants
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Hila Gendler-Shalev; Rama Novogrodsky – First Language, 2024
Toddlers with smaller vocabulary than expected for their age are considered late talkers (LT). This study explored the effects of characteristics of words on vocabulary acquisition of 12- to 24-month-old LT children compared with an age matched (AM) and a vocabulary matched (VM) group of typically developing peers. Using the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Hebrew, Language Skills
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Shari DeVeney; Priyanka Chaudhary; Brooke Heyne; John Rech; Danae Dinkel – Infants and Young Children, 2025
Early childhood is a critical period characterized by rapid development of motor and language skills. Reliably assessing motor and language development in early childhood is difficult, and there is a lack of agreement on measurement tool use. This scoping review aims to identify measurement tools used to examine motor and language skills in…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Children
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Jacob I. Feldman; Varsha Garla; Kacie Dunham; Jennifer E. Markfeld; Sarah M. Bowman; Alexandra J. Golden; Claire Daly; Sophia Kaiser; Nisha Mailapur; Sweeya Raj; Pooja Santapuram; Evan Suzman; Ashley E. Augustine; Aine Muhumuza; Carissa J. Cascio; Kathryn L. Williams; Anne V. Kirby; Bahar Keceli-Kaysili; Tiffany G. Woynaroski – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Early differences in sensory responsiveness may contribute to difficulties with communication among autistic children; however, this theory has not been longitudinally assessed in infants at increased familial versus general population-level likelihood for autism (Sibs-autism vs. Sibs-NA) using a comprehensive battery of sensory responsiveness and…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sensory Experience, Siblings
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Seref Can Esmer; Erim Kizildere; Tilbe Göksun – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Sound symbolism, the iconic link between speech sounds and meanings, helps children's verb learning. In sound symbolically rich languages such as Turkish, hearing sound symbolic words might facilitate early verb learning and later language-specific expressions of motion events, by providing an easier way to map verbs onto events. These links could…
Descriptors: Verbs, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input
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Markfeld, Jennifer E.; Feldman, Jacob I.; Bordman, Samantha L.; Daly, Claire; Santapuram, Pooja; Humphreys, Kathryn L.; Keçeli-Kaysili, Bahar; Woynaroski, Tiffany G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Caregivers of autistic children present with high stress levels, which have been associated with poorer child outcomes in several domains, including language development. However, prior to this study, it was unknown whether elevated caregiver stress was associated with language development in infant siblings of autistic children…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Acquisition, Siblings
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Arnold, Amanda J.; Claxton, Laura J. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Learning to walk leads to an increase in language abilities; however, the underlying mechanisms accounting for this relation remain unclear. Investigating the quality of early gait control may offer some insights. The purpose of this study was to: (1) quantify how 13-month-olds (n = 39; 39% male) and 24-month-olds (n = 39; 59% male) adapt gait…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Physical Activities
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Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The present study investigates the relation between language environment and language delay in 63 British-English speaking children (19 typical talkers (TT), 22 late talkers (LT), and 22 late bloomers (LB) aged 13 to 18 months. Families audio recorded daily routines and marked the new words their child produced over a period of 6 months. To…
Descriptors: Semantics, Speech Communication, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
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