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Pumpki Lei Su; Hyunjoo Yoo; Gordon Ramsay; Helen L. Long; Edina R. Bene; Cheryl Klaiman; Stormi L. Pulver; Shana Richardson; Moira L. Pileggi; Natalie Brane; D. Kimbrough Oller – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The present study compared the infant's tendency in the first year of life to produce clusters of particular vocal types (squeals, vocants, and growls) in typically developing (TD) and autistic infants. Vocal clustering provides evidence of vocal category formation and may establish a foundation for speech development. Specifically, we compared…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Infant Behavior, Oral Language
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Lulu Cheng; Shaoxin Wang; Yule Peng – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Children's language development can reflect the developmental process of children's cognition and social emotions. The present study focuses on preschool children's conversational competence and narrative competence, aiming at exploring developmental features of preschool children's pragmatic competence through analyzing data from self-built oral…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Development, Child Language, Pragmatics
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Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Grantee Submission, 2024
Examining the dimensionality of oral discourse language skills in early childhood is crucial in informing theories of language and literacy development. This study examined the factor structure of linguistic and discourse features in oral text production for second graders. A total of 330 English-speaking second graders (M[subscript age] = 7.33,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Skills, Factor Structure
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Minkyung Cho; Young-Suk Grace Kim – First Language, 2024
Examining the dimensionality of oral discourse language skills in early childhood is crucial in informing theories of language and literacy development. This study examined the factor structure of linguistic and discourse features in oral text production for second graders. A total of 330 English-speaking second graders (M[subscript age]= 7.33,…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Skills, Factor Structure
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Lesley Friend; Lynn Downes – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Oral language is the primary means through which a child controls, describes, organises, and evaluates their life experiences and their ability to use oral language which effectively impacts their future literacy development. Currently, the world is awash with dynamic change and constant disruption. These include natural disasters such as the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Oral Language, Young Children, COVID-19
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Tinatin Tchintcharauli; Nino Tsintsadze; Teona Damenia; Tamar Kalkhitashvili; Nino Doborjginidze; Sigal Uziel-Karl – First Language, 2024
This article explores the applicability of mean length of utterance (MLU) as a language assessment measure for Georgian child language, as to-date, Georgian, a morphologically rich language with numerous inflectional categories, experiences an extensive lack of instruments for early language assessment. To this end, a set of guidelines for…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Turkic Languages
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Georgios P. Georgiou; Constantina Panteli; Elena Theodorou – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2025
This study investigates the speech rate of Cypriot Greek-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) as well as the effect of age and gender. The participants were 16 children with DLD ages 4 years 11 months to 8 years 1 month and 22 children with typical language development (TLD) ages 4 years 5 months to 8 years 7 months. Both…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Fluency, Child Language, Developmental Disabilities
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Helen L. Long; Gordon Ramsay; Edina R. Bene; Pumpki Lei Su; Hyunjoo Yoo; Cheryl Klaiman; Stormi L. Pulver; Shana Richardson; Moira L. Pileggi; Natalie Brane; D. Kimbrough Oller – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study explores vocal development as an early marker of autism, focusing on canonical babbling rate and onset, typically established by 7 months. Previous reports suggested delayed or reduced canonical babbling in infants later diagnosed with autism, but the story may be complicated. We present a prospective study on 44 infants later diagnosed…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Child Language, Oral Language
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Journie Dickerson; Rachael Frush Holt; David B. Pisoni; William G. Kronenberger – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Many child-, hearing-, and device-related factors contribute to spoken language outcomes in children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). Recently, the family environment has been implicated as another contributing factor in language development. However, most studies on the role of families in language outcomes of children who are DHH…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Family Environment, Children
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Keeley Dobinson; Sandra Mathers; Claire Forrest; Jenna Charlton; Julie Dockrell – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Background: Oral language competence provides children with an essential foundation for academic achievement and emotional well-being, yet many children enter school with delayed language and those living in economically disadvantaged areas are at disproportionate risk of experiencing language difficulties. A tiered system, offering high-quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Quality
Norah M. Almubark – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Narrative is the art of conveying a sequence of causally and temporally linked events through monologic telling. Various functions can be served through narratives including sharing experiences, expressing ideas, providing entertainment, and imparting cultural or social values. Narrative language represents an authentic type of language that is…
Descriptors: Narration, Oral Language, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Intervention