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Examining the Associations between Children's Receptive Language Skills and Developmental Domains in the United States and Turkey
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Guler Yildiz, Tulin; Gonen, Mubeccel; Ulker Erdem, Ayca; Garcia, Aileen; Raikes, Helen; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Burcak, Firdevs; Turan, Figen; Can Gul, Sadiye; Davis, Dawn – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examined the relations between receptive language development and other developmental domains of preschoolers from low-income families, through an inter-cultural perspective involving the United States and Turkey. A total of 471 children and their caregivers participated in Turkey, while 287 participated in the United States. Children's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Low Income
Basic Language Comprehension and Production in Greater than 100,000 Young Children from Sixteen Developing Nations
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hendricks, Charlene – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Using the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, language comprehension and production were compared in a sample of 101,250 children aged 2 ; 00 to 9 ; 11 and a focus subsample of 38,845 children aged 2 ; 00 to 4 ; 11 from sixteen under-researched developing nations. In the whole sample, comprehension slightly exceeded production; correlations between…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Children, Living Standards, Developing Nations
The Relationship of Parenting Stress and Child Temperament to Language Development among Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers
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Noel, Melanie; Peterson, Carole; Jesso, Beulah – Journal of Child Language, 2008
Oral language skills in the preschool years are predictive of children's later reading success and literacy acquisition, and among these language skills, vocabulary and narrative ability play important roles. Children from low socioeconomic families face risks to their language development and because of threats to these skills it is important to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Economically Disadvantaged, Parent Role, Child Rearing
Turn Taking Affects the Quality of Infant Vocalizations.
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Bloom, Kathleen; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1987
When vocalizations of three-month-olds (N=40), experiencing either conversational turn-taking or random responsiveness of an adult, were counted and categorized, results indicated that turn-taking caused changes in the quality of vocal sounds. When the adult maintained a give-and-take pattern, the infants produced a higher ratio of…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communication Skills, Expressive Language
The Effect of "Missing" Information on Children's Retention of Fast-Mapped Labels
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Wilkinson, Krista M.; Mazzitelli, Kim – Journal of Child Language, 2003
This paper explores "fast mapping", one of several processes that have been proposed to be involved in the rapid vocabulary expansion observed in the preschool years. An adaptation of a receptive word matching task examined how well children retained a just-mapped relation between word and referent when some information was later missing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children
Joint Picture-Book Reading Correlates of Early Oral Language Skill.
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Debaryshe, Barbara D. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Data from two-year-old children and mothers were collected concerning age at which she began to read to child, frequency of home reading, number of stories read per week, frequency of visits by child to library. Picture-book reading exposure was more strongly related to receptive than expressive language. Age of onset of home reading routines was…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Mothers, Oral Language