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Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina; Pérez-Pereira, Miguel; Cadime, Irene; Silva, Carla; Santos, Sandra; Ribeiro, Iolanda – First Language, 2017
The main aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between the lexical size and the emergence of morphological and syntactic markers in toddlers between the ages of 16 and 30 months and to compare these results between Galician and European Portuguese. Parents of 3012 Portuguese toddlers and those of 1081 Galician toddlers completed…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
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Sandbank, Micheal; Yoder, Paul – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2014
Generalizability and decision studies provide a mathematical framework for quantifying the stability of a given number of measurements. This approach is especially relevant to the task of obtaining a representative measure of communicative behavior in young children and supports an alternative to the debate regarding which type of assessment…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Toddlers, Intervention, Vocabulary Development
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Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore; Sims, Jacqueline Prince – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
In the early stages of word learning, children demonstrate considerable flexibility in the type of symbols they will accept as object labels. However, around the 2nd year, as children continue to gain language experience, they become focused on more conventional symbols (e.g., words) as opposed to less conventional symbols (e.g., gestures). During…
Descriptors: Generalization, Toddlers, Nonverbal Communication, Linguistic Input