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Observing Iconic Gestures Enhances Word Learning in Typically Developing Children and Children with Specific Language Impairment
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Vogt, Susanne; Kauschke, Christina – Journal of Child Language, 2017
Research has shown that observing iconic gestures helps typically developing children (TD) and children with specific language impairment (SLI) learn new words. So far, studies mostly compared word learning with and without gestures. The present study investigated word learning under two gesture conditions in children with and without language…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Child Language, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
A Long-Term Predictive Validity Study: Can the CDI Short Form be Used to Predict Language and Early Literacy Skills Four Years Later?
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Can, Dilara Deniz; Ginsburg-Block, Marika; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This longitudinal study examined the predictive validity of the MacArthur Communicative Developmental Inventories-Short Form (CDI-SF), a parent report questionnaire about children's language development (Fenson, Pethick, Renda, Cox, Dale & Reznick, 2000). Data were first gathered from parents on the CDI-SF vocabulary scores for seventy-six…
Descriptors: Semantics, Pragmatics, Word Recognition, Longitudinal Studies
Interrelations between Communicative Behaviors at the Outset of Speech: Parents as Observers
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Dromi, Esther; Zaidman-Zait, Anat – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The Hebrew Parent Questionnaire for Communication and Early Language (HPQ-CEL) was administered by 154 parents of Hebrew-speaking toddlers aged 1 ; 0 to 1 ; 3 (77 boys, 77 girls). The Questionnaire guided parents in observing and rating their toddlers in six contexts at home. The study aimed to identify inter-correlations between toddlers'…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Toddlers, Cooperation, Questionnaires
Parental Reports of "MAMA" Sounds in Infants: An Exploratory Study.
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Goldman, Herbert I. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Investigated the use of "mama" or similar sounds referred to as "mama" by 75 infants less than 6 months of age. Parents were directed to listen for "mama" sounds and to note the sounds made, the age of onset, whether the sounds appeared to be directed to any person or persons, or whether they appeared to have a purpose. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interviews, Language Acquisition
Early Lexical Development in Spanish-Speaking Infants and Toddlers.
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Jackson-Maldonado, Donna; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1993
The development of a new parent report instrument, Inventario del Desarollo de Habilidades Communicativas, is reported and 5 studies carried out with the instrument for 328 children aged 8 months to 2 years/7 months are presented. Among the findings are similar trajectories of development for Spanish- and English-speaking children and for children…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, English, Infants
Early Acquisition of Verbs in Korean: A Cross-linguistic Study.
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Choi, Soonja; Gopnik, Alison – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Investigates children's early lexical development in English and Korean and compares caregivers' linguistic input in the two languages. Results indicate that young Korean children use verbs productively with appropriate inflections and that, unlike in English, both verbs and nouns in Korean are dominant categories from the single-word stage. (39…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation