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Direct linkJennifer E. Markfeld; Zoë Kiemel; Pooja Santapuram; Samantha L. Bordman; Grace Pulliam; S. Madison Clark; Lauren H. Hampton; Bahar Keçeli-Kaysili; Jacob I. Feldman; Tiffany G. Woynaroski – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The present study explored the extent to which early prelinguistic communication skills predict expressive language in toddlers with autistic siblings (Sibs-autism), who are known to be at high likelihood for autism and language disorder, and a comparison group of toddlers with non-autistic older siblings (Sibs-NA). Method: Participants…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Toddlers
Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Berens, Sam; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Walker, Sarah A.; Henderson, Lisa-Marie – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Children's vocabulary ability at school entry is highly variable and predictive of later language and literacy outcomes. Sleep is potentially useful in understanding and explaining that variability, with sleep patterns being predictive of global trajectories of language acquisition. Here, we looked to replicate and extend these findings. Data from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Vocabulary, Sleep, Predictor Variables
Caroline F. Rowland; Amy Bidgood; Gary Jones; Andrew Jessop; Paula Stinson; Julian M. Pine; Samantha Durrant; Michelle S. Peter – Language Learning, 2025
A strong predictor of children's language is performance on non-word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects language growth. Others argue that children's knowledge of language/language experience affects NWR performance. A…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Language Skills
Huei-Mei Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao; Chun-Yi Lin; Gwyneth Rost; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The current investigation evaluated the extent to which early noun, verb, and adjective lexicon sizes predicted later grammatical outcomes in Mandarin-speaking children with and without late language emergence (LLE) using a parent report. Method: In Study 1, the parents of 24 Mandarin-speaking children with typical language filled out the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Casla, Marta; Méndez-Cabezas, Celia; Montero, Ignacio; Murillo, Eva; Nieva, Silvia; Rodríguez, Jessica – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The role of children's verbal repetition of parents' utterances on vocabulary growth has been well documented (Masur, 1999). Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed adults' and children's spontaneous verbal repetition around the second birthday distinguishing between the types of repetition. We analyzed longitudinally Spanish-speaking parent-child…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Repetition, Parents, Vocabulary Development
Petinou, Kakia; Taxitari, Loukia; Phinikettos, Ioannis; Theodorou, Eleni – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This investigation examined the existence of interconnectedness between developing linguistic subsystems. Spontaneous speech samples were collected from 31 typically-developing Greek-speaking toddlers across two age levels, at 28 and 36 months. Correlational analyses were performed synchronically and predictively, revealing significant positive…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Greek, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
Gurgand, Lilas; Lamarque, Loïa; Havron, Naomi; Bernard, Jonathan Y.; Ramus, Franck; Peyre, Hugo – Developmental Science, 2023
The number of older siblings a child has is negatively correlated with the child's verbal skills, an effect that is well known in the literature. However, few studies have examined the effect of older siblings' sex, of the age gap between siblings, of having foreign-speaking parents, as well as the mediating role of parental interaction. Using…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Foreign Countries
Raneri, Daniele; Von Holzen, Katie; Newman, Rochelle; Bernstein Ratner, Nan – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Aims: Although IDS is typically described as slower than adult-directed speech (ADS), potential impacts of slower speech on language development have not been examined. We explored whether IDS speech rates in 42 mother-infant dyads at four time periods predicted children's language outcomes at two years. Method: We correlated IDS speech rate with…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Speech Communication, Language Acquisition
Smith, Elizabeth G.; Condy, Emma; Anderson, Afrouz; Thurm, Audrey; Manwaring, Stacy S.; Swineford, Lauren; Gandjbakhche, Amir; Redcay, Elizabeth – Developmental Science, 2020
The toddler and preschool years are a time of significant development in both expressive and receptive communication abilities. However, little is known about the neurobiological underpinnings of language development during this period, likely due to difficulties acquiring functional neuroimaging data. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)…
Descriptors: Spectroscopy, Toddlers, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Speech Communication
Shapiro, Naomi Tachikawa; Hippe, Daniel S.; Ramírez, Naja Ferjan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Fathers play a critical but underresearched role in their children's cognitive and linguistic development. Focusing on two-parent families with a mother and a father, the present longitudinal study explores the amount of paternal input infants hear during the first 2 years of life, how this input changes over time, and how it relates to…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Family Environment, Parent Child Relationship
Su, Pumpki L.; Rogers, Sally J.; Estes, Annette; Yoder, Paul – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
This study examined an insufficiently studied predictor of functional language, social motivation, in a group of 87 young children with autism spectrum disorder. Participants (age 14-31 months at the start of the study) were assessed at four times over 24 months. We tested total and indirect associations between early social motivation and later…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Predictor Variables, Language Skills
Lexically Driven or Early Structure Building? Constructing an Early Grammar in German Child Language
Szagun, Gisela; Schramm, Satyam A. – First Language, 2019
This study examines the role of the lexicon and grammatical structure building in early grammar. Parent-report data in CDI format from a sample of 1151 German-speaking children between 1;6 and 2;6 and longitudinal spontaneous speech data from 22 children between 1;8 and 2;5 were used. Regression analysis of the parent-report data indicates that…
Descriptors: Child Language, German, Toddlers, Grammar
Uccelli, Paola; Demir-Lira, Özlem Ece; Rowe, Meredith L.; Levine, Susan; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 2019
This study examines whether children's decontextualized talk--talk about nonpresent events, explanations, or pretend--at 30 months predicts seventh-grade academic language proficiency (age 12). Academic language (AL) refers to the language of school texts. AL proficiency has been identified as an important predictor of adolescent text…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Proficiency, Toddlers, Grade 7
Lankinen, Viivi; Lähteenmäki, Marko; Kaljonen, Anne; Korpilahti, Pirjo – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between paternal attitudes, father-child activities, socioeconomic and sociodemographic factors, and the early child productive vocabulary. We also wanted to study if paternal factors affected boys' and girls' language acquisition differently. Our data consisted of 722 fathers and their…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Language Acquisition
