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Bernier, Annie; McMahon, Catherine A.; Perrier, Rachel – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This study aimed to test a 5-wave sequential mediation model linking maternal mind-mindedness during infancy to children's school readiness in kindergarten through a serial mediation involving child language and effortful control in toddlerhood and the preschool years. Among a sample of 204 mother-child dyads, we assessed maternal mind-mindedness…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language, Toddlers
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Bouchard, Caroline; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann; Boudreault, Marie-Claude; Deneault, Joane – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The purpose of this article is to examine the language of girls and boys between 8 and 30 months of age, using the Quebec French version of The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. The findings from this parental report measure confirm those of earlier research, which showed the linguistic superiority of girls over boys at a young age.…
Descriptors: Females, French Canadians, Foreign Countries, French
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Sabbagh, Mark A.; Wdowiak, Sylwia D.; Ottaway, Jennifer M. – Journal of Child Language, 2003
Thirty-six three- to four-year-old children were tested to assess whether hearing a word-referent link from an ignorant speaker affected children's abilities to subsequently link the same word with an alternative referent offered by another speaker. In the principal experimental conditions, children first heard either an ignorant or a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Language Processing