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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
Luo, Jianfen; Xu, Lei; Wang, Min; Xie, Dianzhao; Li, Jinming; Liu, Xianqi; He, Shuman; Spencer, Linda; Rost, Gwyneth; Guo, Ling-Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) demonstrated early lexical composition similar to their hearing peers who were at the same vocabulary level and the extent to which children with CIs were sensitive to linguistic and conceptual properties when developing early lexicon.…
Descriptors: Infants, Expressive Language, Mandarin Chinese, Assistive Technology
Ying, Yuanfan; Yang, Xiaolu; Shi, Rushen – First Language, 2022
Previous studies show that infants store functional morphemes for inferring syntactic categories of adjacent words, and they generally perform better with nouns than with verbs. In this study, we tested whether toddlers can exploit phrasal groupings for syntactic categorization in the face of noisy co-occurrence patterns. Using a visual fixation…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Inferences
Blau, Shane Reuven – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their environment. To date, most studies of infant perception and early language acquisition have investigated spoken/auditory languages and hearing infants (e.g.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns, Infants
Joseph, Gail E.; Soderberg, Janet; Abbott, Robert; Garzon, Roxanne; Scott, Crista – Infants and Young Children, 2022
Language skills are vital to children's learning and well-being, and the first 5 years of life are an especially critical time for language acquisition. Research suggests that when early childhood teachers create language-rich environments, children develop stronger receptive and expressive language abilities, especially children from low-income…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Child Care
Megan A. Bergeron – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigated the caregiving relationships between infants and nonparental caregivers in early childcare settings through the lens of attachment and language behaviors. This study sought to provide an opportunity to extend our understanding of the socioemotional factors that influence children's development in their daily lives.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship