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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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Friend, Margaret; Smolak, Erin; Liu, Yushuang; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Zesiger, Pascal – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Recent studies demonstrate that emerging literacy depends on earlier language achievement. Importantly, most extant work focuses on "parent-reported production" prior to 30 months of age. Of interest is whether and how "directly assessed vocabulary comprehension" in the 2nd year of life supports vocabulary and kindergarten…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Skills, Vocabulary Development, Kindergarten
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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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Moore, Chris; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examines the development of children's understanding of the difference between "want" and "need" in two different experiments. The first experiment required the children to respond verbally in choosing between the two concepts; the second required them to give an object to one of two characters who had made a request using…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
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Desjarlais, Lionel; Lazar, Avrim – 1976
This is the final report of the project entitled "A Study to Determine the Degree of Relationship between Linguistic Concepts and Structures in French as a Mother Tongue and Stages of Psychological Readiness of Students at the Junior and Intermediate Levels." The project's primary aim was to determine the psychological readiness, with…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development
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Moore, Chris; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the understanding of the pragmatic function of mental terms ("think,""know,""guess") to express the relative certainty of 69 children aged 3-11. Results showed an improvement with age for the "know-think" and "know-guess" contrasts, but no improvement with age for the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Siegel, Linda S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1982
Although both environmental and cognitive factors were found to predict language development, cognitive factors appear to be more significant in the early months and environmental factors become more significant later in development. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
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Peterson, Carole; Jesso, Beulah; McCabe, Allyssa – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Investigated whether low-income mothers learned to interact with their preschoolers in ways that fostered narrative skills. Mothers of intervention children were encouraged to elicit questions, encourage longer narratives, and participate in narrative conversation. Assessment of children's pre- and post-intervention narrative and vocabulary skills…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth
Desjarlais, Lionel; Lazar, Avrim – 1976
This study is concerned with the teaching of French grammar to native speakers at the elementary level and specifically considers whether or not students are psychologically ready to handle concepts entailed in the formal instruction of grammar. The sample included 5,900 students in grades 4 through 8 in French schools in Ontario. Subjects…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Auger, Julie; Rose, Yvan – 1997
Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism