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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz; Restrepo, María Adelaida; Sedey, Allison Lee; Yoshinaga-Itano, Christine – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The goal of this study was to identify predictors of expressive vocabulary in young Spanish-speaking children who are deaf or hard of hearing living in the United States. Method: This cross-sectional study considered 53 children with bilateral hearing loss between 8 and 34 months of age ( M = 24, SD = 6.9). Demographic variables,…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Expressive Language, Spanish Speaking, Vocabulary Development
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McMillan, Brianna T. M.; Saffran, Jenny R. – Child Development, 2016
Although most studies of language learning take place in quiet laboratory settings, everyday language learning occurs under noisy conditions. The current research investigated the effects of background speech on word learning. Both younger (22- to 24-month-olds; n = 40) and older (28- to 30-month-olds; n = 40) toddlers successfully learned novel…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary, Age Differences, Toddlers