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Havy, Mélanie; Foroud, Afra; Fais, Laurel; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2017
Visual information influences speech perception in both infants and adults. It is still unknown whether lexical representations are multisensory. To address this question, we exposed 18-month-old infants (n = 32) and adults (n = 32) to new word-object pairings: Participants either heard the acoustic form of the words or saw the talking face in…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Adults, Speech
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Quinn, Jamie M.; Wagner, Richard K.; Petscher, Yaacov; Lopez, Danielle – Child Development, 2015
The present study followed a sample of first-grade (N = 316, M[subscript age] = 7.05 at first test) through fourth-grade students to evaluate dynamic developmental relations between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. Using latent change score modeling, competing models were fit to the repeated measurements of vocabulary knowledge and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Pine, Julian M. – Child Development, 1995
Investigated birth-order differences in children's early vocabulary development. Compared the composition and age of acquisition of the first 50 and 100 words of 9 firstborns and their younger siblings, using a longitudinal maternal diary methodology. A small but significant birth-order effect was found for the age at which the 50-word milestone…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages, Individual Differences