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Kidd, Evan; Lum, Jarrad A. G. – Developmental Science, 2008
Hartshorne and Ullman (2006 ) presented naturalistic language data from 25 children (15 boys, 10 girls) and showed that girls produced more past tense overregularization errors than did boys. In particular, girls were more likely to overregularize irregular verbs whose stems share phonological similarities with regular verbs. It was argued that…
Descriptors: Females, Verbs, Gender Differences, Males
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Jones, Gary; Gobet, Fernand; Pine, Julian M. – Developmental Science, 2007
The nonword repetition (NWR) test has been shown to be a good predictor of children's vocabulary size. NWR performance has been explained using phonological working memory, which is seen as a critical component in the learning of new words. However, no detailed specification of the link between phonological working memory and long-term memory…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Vocabulary Development