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Talk about Talk with Young Children: Pragmatic Socialization in Two Communities in Norway and the US
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Direct linkAukrust, Vibeke Grover – Journal of Child Language, 2004
Recent studies have suggested that cultures vary in subtle ways in the talk about talk that children hear and learn to produce. Twenty-two three-year-old children and their families in respectively Oslo, Norway and Cambridge, Massachusetts were observed during mealtime with the aim of identifying talk-focused talk. The analysis distinguished talk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Wilkinson, Krista M.; Mazzitelli, Kim – Journal of Child Language, 2003
This paper explores "fast mapping", one of several processes that have been proposed to be involved in the rapid vocabulary expansion observed in the preschool years. An adaptation of a receptive word matching task examined how well children retained a just-mapped relation between word and referent when some information was later missing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children
Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith L.; Spier, Elizabeth; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers' productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory-Short Form (CDI) at child age 2;0 was compared to concurrent spontaneous speech measures and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Correlation, Child Language, Language Acquisition
