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Rantalainen, Katariina; Paavola-Ruotsalainen, Leila; Kunnari, Sari – First Language, 2022
This study investigated responsive and directive speech from 60 Finnish mothers to their 2-year-old children, as well as correlations with concurrent and later vocabulary. Possible gender differences with regard to both maternal speech and children's vocabulary skills were considered. There were no gender differences in maternal utterance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship
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Aldrich, Naomi J.; Brooks, Patricia J. – First Language, 2017
This study investigated children's narrative evaluations about jealousy in relation to performance on a higher-order perspective-taking task and assessments of receptive vocabulary and nonverbal intelligence. Eighty children (5;0-11;11) narrated a wordless picture book about a jealous frog, answered probe questions about the plot, and generated a…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Psychological Patterns, Perspective Taking, Picture Books
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Simonsen, Hanne Gram; Kristoffersen, Kristian E.; Bleses, Dorthe; Wehberg, Sonja; Jørgensen, Rune N. – First Language, 2014
This article presents results from a large population-based study of early communicative development in Norwegian children using an adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories, comprising 6574 children between 8 and 36 months. Data were collected via the Internet. In accordance with similar studies from other languages,…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Skills, Gender Differences