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Direct linkPronina, Mariia; Prieto, Pilar; Bischetti, Luca; Bambini, Valentina – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Pragmatics, Suprasegmentals, Preschool Children
Curtis, Philip R.; Estabrook, Ryne; Roberts, Megan Y.; Weisleder, Adriana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Late talkers (LTs) are a group of children who exhibit delays in language development without a known cause. Although a hallmark of LTs is a reduced expressive vocabulary, little is known about LTs' processing of semantic relations among words in their emerging vocabularies. This study uses an eye-tracking task to compare 2-year-old LTs'…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Delayed Speech, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Gendler-Shalev, Hila; Ben-David, Avivit; Novogrodsky, Rama – First Language, 2021
During the second year of life, children acquire words and expand their receptive and expressive vocabularies at a rapid pace. At this age, toddlers' phonological abilities are also developing rapidly. The current study investigated the effect of phonological complexity of words on the order in which they are acquired, receptively and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Difficulty Level, Toddlers, Semitic Languages
Cristina McKean; Christine Jack; Sean Pert; Carolyn Letts; Helen Stringer; Mark Masidlover; Anastasia Trebacz; Robert Rush; Emily Armstrong; Kate Conn; Jenny Sandham; Elaine Ashton; Naomi Rose – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Children's language abilities set the stage for their education, psychosocial development and life chances across the life course. Aims: To compare the efficacy of two preschool language interventions delivered with low dosages in early years settings (EYS): Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST) and an Adapted Derbyshire Language…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Children, Child Language
Malandraki, Georgia A.; Mitchell, Samantha S.; Hahn Arkenberg, Rachel E.; Brown, Barbara; Craig, Bruce ?.; Burdo-Hartman, Wendy; Lundine, Jennifer P.; Darling-White, Meghan; Goffman, Lisa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Our purpose was to start examining clinical swallowing and motor speech skills of school-age children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) compared to typically developing children (TDC), how these skills relate to each other, and whether they are predicted by clinical/demographic data (age, birth history, lesion type, etc.). Method:…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Motor Reactions, Speech Skills, Children
Kachergis, George; Marchman, Virginia A.; Dale, Philip S.; Mankewitz, Jessica; Frank, Michael C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Measuring the growth of young children's vocabulary is important for researchers seeking to understand language learning as well as for clinicians aiming to identify early deficits. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are parent report instruments that offer a reliable and valid method for measuring early…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Vocabulary Development, English, Spanish
Yumus, Melike; Turan, Figen – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study examined implementation of a newly developed shared book reading intervention program, to boost infants' early skills and provide a solid foundation for continued language learning. A randomised control study was conducted to elevate the effects of Shared Book Reading Intervention with 20 parents (n = 10 experiment, n = 10 control) and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Reading Strategies, Intervention, Infants
Mason-Apps, Emily; Stojanovik, Vesna; Houston-Price, Carmel; Seager, Emily; Buckley, Sue – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The study explored longitudinally the course of vocabulary and general language development in a group of infants with Down syndrome (DS) compared to a group of typically developing (TD) infants matched on nonverbal mental ability (NVMA). Method: We compared the vocabulary and general language trajectories of the two groups in two ways:…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Infants, Receptive Language, Language Acquisition
Esbensen, Annette; Thomsen, Pia – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2021
Word retrieval and lexical organization were explored in 16 Danish children with slight to severe hearing loss (HL), 11 children with developmental language disorder (DLD), and 25 typically developing (TD) children in the age range of 7 to 12 years. There is a special focus on children with HL with and without language difficulties compared with…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
Bruinsma, Gerda; Wijnen, Frank; Gerrits, Ellen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Early and effective treatment for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) is important. Although a growing body of research shows the effects of interventions at the group level, clinicians observe large individual differences in language growth, and differences in outcomes across language domains. A systematic…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Young Children, Special Education
Finnegan, Elizabeth G.; Asaro-Saddler, Kristie; Zajic, Matthew C. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study compared pronoun use in individuals with autism to their typically developing peers via meta-analysis and systematic review of 20 selected articles to examine differences in overall pronoun usage as well as in personal, ambiguous, possessive, reflexive, and clitic pronoun usage. Summary effects indicated significant differences between…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Form Classes (Languages), Comprehension
Davidson, Meghan M.; Ellis Weismer, Susan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
This study examined the extent to which a discrepant comprehension-production profile (i.e., relatively more delayed comprehension than production) is characteristic of the early language phenotype in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and tracked the developmental progression of the profile. Our findings indicated that a discrepant…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Toddlers
Taylor, Lauren J.; Charman, Tony; Howlin, Patricia; Slonims, Vicky; Green, Jonathan; Aldred, Catherine; Aldred, Catherine; Le Couteur, Ann; Emsley, Richard A.; Grahame, Victoria; Humphrey, Neil; Leadbitter, Kathy; McConachie, Helen; Parr, Jeremy R.; Pickles, Andrew; Taylor, Carol; Balabanovska, Matea; Beach, Hilary; Byford, Sarah; Bennett, Claire; Carruthers, Sophie; Crook, Imogen; Danvers, Hannah; Dartnall, Kate; Ellis, Ceri; Foote, Hannah; Graham, Jessica; James, Kirsty; Jamieson, Sarah; Knight, Anna; Lowe, Jo; Madeley, Ruth; Mitchell, Olivia; Monteiro, Francisca; Moore, Heather L.; Morley, Helen; Rose, Jessica; Rogan, Leanne; Vosper, Susanna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
We investigated the early sociocognitive battery (ESB), a novel measure of preverbal social communication skills, in children with autism participating in the Paediatric Autism Communication Trial-Generalised (PACT-G). The associations between ESB scores, language and autism symptoms were assessed in 249 children aged 2-11 years. The results show…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication
Taylor, Kelly; Kan, Pui Fong – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examined the effects of older siblings' L1/L2 use on the vocabulary and fast mapping skills in preschool-age children who learn Cantonese (L1) as a home language and start to learn English (L2) in preschool settings. Two groups of bilingual children participated in this study: (1) children whose older siblings used mostly L1 at home…
Descriptors: Siblings, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Preschool Children
Farrar, M. Jeffrey; Seung, Hye Kyeung; Lee, Hyeonjin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Language is related to false-belief (FB) understanding in both typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The current study examined the role of complementation and general language in FB understanding. Of interest was whether language plays similar or different roles in the groups' FB performance.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
