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Developmental Changes and Variability in the Early Lexicon: A Study of French Children's Naturalistic Productions.
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Bassano, Dominique; Maillochon, Isabelle; Eme, Elsa – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Two studies investigated developmental changes, and inter-linguistic and inter-individual variations, in the expansion and composition of young French children's early lexicons. Results indicated that lexical productivity strongly increased with age, whereas lexical diversity showed little developmental progression. Inter-individual variability in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Foreign Countries
External Sources of Individual Differences? A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of the Phonetics of Mothers' Speech to 1-Year-Old Children.
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Vihman, Marilyn M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Sampled the speech of American, French, and Swedish mothers to their one-year olds, to analyze distribution of phonetic parameters of adult speech, as well as children's own early words. Found that variability is greater in child words than in adult speech, and mother-child dyads showed no evidence of specific maternal influence on phonetics of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies