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Direct linkRinaldi, Pasquale; Pasqulaetti, Patrizio; Stefanini, Silvia; Bello, Arianna – Journal of Child Language, 2019
One of the most popular and widely used parent report instruments for assessing early language acquisition is the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI). This study compares normative data of the Italian Words and Sentences complete form (WS-CF) and short form (WS-SF). The samples included 752 children for the WS-CF and 816…
Descriptors: Italian, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
Urm, Ada; Tulviste, Tiia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to develop a valid and reliable screening tool to identify children with risk of developing language difficulties for Estonian-speaking 2- to 3-year-old children. Method: Nine hundred ninety parents of children ages 1;8-3;1 (years;months) filled in the Estonian MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Screening Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Maassen, Ben A. M.; Krikhaar, Evelien; van der Leij, Aryan; Fikkert, Paula – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study was to gain more insight into the linguistic characterization of dyslexia by investigating vocabulary acquisition. In a previous study, vocabulary at 17 months of age appeared to be related to familial risk (FR) of dyslexia. The aim of this study was to investigate how the differences in lexical composition further…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Vocabulary Development, Dyslexia, At Risk Persons
Kehoe, Margaret; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Friend, Margaret – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated within-language and between-language associations between phonological memory, vocabulary, and grammar in French-English (n = 43) and Spanish-English (n = 25) bilingual children at 30, 36, and 48 months. It was predicted that phonological memory would display both within-language and between-language relations to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies
Duchesne, Louise; Trudeau, Natacha; MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Bergeron, François; Thordardottir, Elin – Journal of Early Intervention, 2020
In children with a hearing loss who receive cochlear implants (CIs) under the age of 2, regular assessments are conducted to monitor auditory and linguistic progress. However, the collection of authentic, representative, and reliable expressive language data on young children with CIs remains a challenge. The purpose of the study was to determine…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Assistive Technology, Hearing Impairments, Infants
Silva, Carla; Cadime, Irene; Ribeiro, Iolanda; Santos, Sandra; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Viana, Fernanda Leopoldina – First Language, 2017
The results from a large-scale study on toddlers' language acquisition in European Portuguese are presented. Toddlers' lexical and grammatical competencies were assessed using the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences. The results, based on 3012 reports completed by parents, indicate an increase in the lexical…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Morphology (Languages)
Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urska; Podlesek, Anja – Journal of Child Language, 2013
A large body of research shows that vocabulary does not develop independently of grammar, representing a better predictor of the grammatical complexity of toddlers' utterances than age. This study examines for the first time the characteristics of vocabulary and grammar development in Slovenian-speaking infants and toddlers using the Slovenian…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew; Holt, Janet K.; Papastratakos, Theodora; Hsu, Ning; Kubalanza, Mary; McKenna, Megan M. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Purpose: The current study used an intervention design to test the hypothesis that parent input sentences with diverse lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects would accelerate growth in children's sentence diversity. Method: Child growth in third person sentence diversity was modeled from 21-30 months (n = 38) in conversational language samples obtained…
Descriptors: Parents, Hypothesis Testing, Control Groups, Toddlers
Labrell, Florence; van Geert, Paul; Declercq, Christelle; Baltazart, Véronique; Caillies, Stéphanie; Olivier, Marie; Le Sourn-Bissaoui, Sandrine – First Language, 2014
Dynamic analyses of language growth tell us how vocabulary and grammar develop and how the two might be intertwined. Analyses of growth curves between 17 and 42 months, based on longitudinal data for 34 children, revealed interesting patterns of vocabulary and grammatical developments. They showed that these patterns were nonlinear, but with…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Profiles, Infants, Toddlers
Reese, Elaine; Ballard, Elaine; Taumoepeau, Mele; Taumoefolau, Melenaite; Morton, Susan B.; Grant, Cameron; Atatoa-Carr, Polly; McNaughton, Stuart; Schmidt, Johanna; Mohal, Jatender; Perese, Lana – First Language, 2015
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (short form) was adapted for Samoan and Tongan speakers in New Zealand. The adaptation process drew upon language samples from Samoan and Tongan parent-child dyads with 20- and 26-month-old children and adult informants. The resulting 100-word language inventories in Samoan and Tongan, plus a…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Mothers
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
Umek, Ljubica Marjanovic; Fekonja, Urska; Kranjc, Simona; Bajc, Katja – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
Several studies have demonstrated that children's gender and parental education exert a significant, but not equal, effect on toddler language development at different ages. This study determined the effect of children's gender and parental education on the verbal competence of toddlers between 16 and 30 months. The sample included 953 Slovenian…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Toddlers, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Acquisition
Devescovi, Antonella; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Marchione, Daniela; Pasqualetti, Patrizio; Reilly, Judy; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The relationship between grammatical and lexical development was compared in 233 English and 233 Italian children aged between 1;6 and 2;6, matched for age, gender, and vocabulary size on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). Four different measures of Mean Length of Utterance were applied to the three longest utterances…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedDale, Philip S.; Ginette, Dionne; Eley, Thalia C.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Assessed the language development of 2,898 pairs of 2-year-old twins born in England and Wales using the MacArthur Communicative language Development Inventory, which assesses vocabulary and grammar. Moderate heritabilities were found for both. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Grammar, Language Acquisition
