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Scores on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory of Children from Low- and Middle-Income Families.
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Arriaga, Rose I.; Fenson, Larry; Cronan, Terry; Pethick, Stephen J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
This study compared language skills in a group of very low-income toddlers with those of a middle-income sample matched on age and sex. The assessment instrument used was the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory for toddlers, a parent report form. Scores for low-income group were strikingly lower on three key indices evaluated: size of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language, Language Skills, Low Income
The Acquisition of Object Names in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Action Context and Word Extension.
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Schwartz, Richard G.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Comparison of language-impaired two- to three-year-olds (N=10) and normal one-year-olds (N=15) matched for expressive language revealed that the language-impaired subjects acquired a greater number of object concepts presented in a no-action condition than the normal children, although language-impaired subjects' extensions of the names to new…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Context Clues