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Stokes, Stephanie F.; Kern, Sophie; dos Santos, Christophe – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Stokes (2010) compared the lexicons of English-speaking late talkers (LT) with those of their typically developing (TD) peers on neighborhood density (ND) and word frequency (WF) characteristics and suggested that LTs employed learning strategies that differed from those of their TD peers. This research sought to explore the cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Speech Communication, Learning Strategies, Word Frequency
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Clark, Eve V.; Grossman, James B. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
This study tested the hypothesis that children as young as two years use what adults tell them about meaning relations when making inferences about new words. Subjects (n=18) learned two new terms, with instructions to treat one term as superordinate to the other or replace one with the other, and with no instructions. Children used both kinds of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Inferences, Language Acquisition, Language Processing