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Jose Pérez-Navarro; Marie Lallier – Child Development, 2025
This study examined the influence of linguistic input on the development of productive and receptive skills across three fundamental language domains: lexico-semantics, syntax, and phonology. Seventy-one (35 female) Basque-Spanish bilingual children were assessed at three time points (Fall 2018, Summer 2019, Winter 2021), between 4 and 6 years of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students
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Nencheva, Mira L.; Tamir, Diana I.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Child Development, 2023
Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative development. How does children's emotion-related vocabulary emerge over development? How may emotion-related information in caregiver input support learning of emotion labels and other emotion-related words? This investigation examined language production and input…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Toddlers, Language Usage, Speech Communication
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Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Custode, Stephanie; Kuchirko, Yana; Escobar, Kelly; Lo, Tiffany – Child Development, 2019
Everyday activities are replete with contextual cues for infants to exploit in the service of learning words. Nelson's (1985) script theory guided the hypothesis that infants participate in a set of predictable activities over the course of a day that provide them with opportunities to hear unique language functions and forms. Mothers and their…
Descriptors: Infants, Family Environment, Linguistic Input, Cues