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Direct linkSwingley, Daniel; Humphrey, Colman – Child Development, 2018
To evaluate which features of spoken language aid infant word learning, a corpus of infant-directed speech (M. R. Brent & J. M. Siskind, 2001) was characterized on several linguistic dimensions and statistically related to the infants' vocabulary outcomes word by word. Comprehension (at 12 and 15 months) and production (15 months) were…
Descriptors: Infants, Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
Farver, Jo Ann M.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Eppe, Stefanie – Child Development, 2009
Ninety-four Spanish-speaking preschoolers (M age = 54.51 months, SD = 4.72; 43 girls) were randomly assigned to receive the High/Scope Curriculum (control n = 32) or the Literacy Express Preschool Curriculum in English-only (n = 31) or initially in Spanish transitioning to English (n = 31). Children's emergent literacy skills were assessed before…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Emergent Literacy
Fennell, Christopher T.; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2007
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual infants. Monolinguals cannot learn minimally different words (e.g., "bih" and "dih") in a laboratory task until 17 months of age ( J. F. Werker, C. T. Fennell, K. M. Corcoran, & C. L. Stager, 2002). This study was extended to 14- to 20-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
