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A Long-Term Predictive Validity Study: Can the CDI Short Form be Used to Predict Language and Early Literacy Skills Four Years Later?
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Can, Dilara Deniz; Ginsburg-Block, Marika; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This longitudinal study examined the predictive validity of the MacArthur Communicative Developmental Inventories-Short Form (CDI-SF), a parent report questionnaire about children's language development (Fenson, Pethick, Renda, Cox, Dale & Reznick, 2000). Data were first gathered from parents on the CDI-SF vocabulary scores for seventy-six…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Word Recognition, Longitudinal Studies
Semantic Development in Infants: The Concepts of Agent and Recipient
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1975
Reports on preliminary attempts to find a set of non-linguistic categories in minimally verbal infants. A methodology suitable for the presentation of semantically-defined concepts (agent and recipient) was developed. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition
'Mommy Sock': The Child's Understanding of Possession as Expressed in Two-Noun Phrases.
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Markessini, Joan – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Thirty children with a mean length of utterance ranging from 1.00 to 4 and an age range of 1.7 to 5.5 were tested for comprehension of two-noun possessive phrases. Three types of possessive relationships were used to uncover children's knowledge of the semantics and syntax of English possession. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Comprehension, Grammar, Language Acquisition