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Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
For the current study, a multi-measure, micro-analytic approach was used to prospectively explore the role of preliminary symbolic play with single and multi-objects in language milestone development and vice versa. Fourteen infants followed up in monthly one hour sessions between the ages of 8 and 16 months. Their spontaneous play acts and vocal…
Descriptors: Play, Language Acquisition, Infants, Cognitive Development
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Ercenur Ünal; Kevser Kirbasoglu; Dilay Z. Karadöller; Beyza Sümer; Asli Özyürek – Cognitive Science, 2025
In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross-linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to "front" and "behind," followed by "left" and "right." This order has been attributed to the complexity of the relations expressed by…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Mapping, Spatial Ability, Language Processing
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Jiao Du; Xiaowei He; Haopeng Yu – First Language, 2025
We used the elicited production task to explore the production of short and long passives in 15 Mandarin-speaking preschool children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD; aged 4;2-5;11) in comparison with 15 Typically Developing Aged-matched (TDA) children (aged 4;3-5;8) and 15 Typically Developing Younger (TDY) children (aged 3;2-4;3). This…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Impairments
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Johnson, Mckenna – Infants and Young Children, 2021
This review addresses the question of how early access to sign language influences the development of deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) by examining the literature surrounding the topic across the domains of spoken/written language development, cognitive development, and sociocultural development. Although research in the realm of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Assistive Technology, Sign Language, Language Acquisition
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Bordenave, Diane; McCune, Lorraine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the grunt vocalizations to cognitive and expressive language status in children with disabilities. Children with typical development produce communicative grunts at the onset of referential word production and comprehension at 14-16 months of age and continue to use this…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Communication Skills, Children, Disabilities
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Montag, Jessica L.; Jones, Michael N.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognitive Science, 2018
The words in children's language learning environments are strongly predictive of cognitive development and school achievement. But how do we measure language environments and do so at the scale of the many words that children hear day in, day out? The quantity and quality of words in a child's input are typically measured in terms of total amount…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Prediction
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Martin, Alia; Onishi, Kristine H.; Vouloumanos, Athena – Cognition, 2012
Adult humans recognize that even unfamiliar speech can communicate information between third parties, demonstrating an ability to separate communicative function from linguistic content. We examined whether 12-month-old infants understand that speech can communicate before they understand the meanings of specific words. Specifically, we test the…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, Age Differences
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Kondrad, Robyn L.; Jaswal, Vikram K. – Cognitive Development, 2012
Errors differ in degree of seriousness. We asked whether preschoolers would use the magnitude of an informant's errors to decide if that informant would be a good source of information later. Four- and 5-year-olds observed two informants incorrectly label familiar objects, but one informant's errors were closer to the correct answer than the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Novels, Language Acquisition, Semiotics
Marschark, Marc, Ed.; Knoors, Harry, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2020
In recent years, the intersection of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and neuroscience with regard to deaf individuals has received increasing attention from a variety of academic and educational audiences. Both research and pedagogy have addressed questions about whether deaf children learn in the same ways that hearing children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability
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Delcenserie, Audrey; Genesee, Fred; Gauthier, Karine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
We assessed the language, cognitive, and socioemotional abilities of 27 internationally adopted children from China, adopted by French-speaking parents, 12 of whom had been assessed previously by Gauthier and Genesee. The children were on average 7 years, 10 months old and were matched to nonadopted monolingual French-speaking children on age,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Adoption, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication
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Landi, Nicole; Crowley, Michael J.; Wu, Jia; Bailey, Christopher A.; Mayes, Linda C. – Brain and Language, 2012
Concern for the impact of prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE) on human language development is based on observations of impaired performance on assessments of language skills in these children relative to non-exposed children. We investigated the effects of PCE on speech processing ability using event-related potentials (ERPs) among a sample of…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Cocaine, Oral Language, Adolescents
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Goh, Siang Sin; Yamauchi, Lois A.; Ratliffe, Katherine T. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Although conversations have been identified as an important means to promote young learners' language development, preschool children often have limited opportunities to be involved in complex conversations. This study examined preschool adaptations of Instructional Conversation, a small group discussion between teachers and children in which…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Speech Communication, Group Discussion, Prior Learning
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Nip, Ignatius S. B.; Green, Jordan R.; Marx, David B. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2009
This longitudinal investigation examines developmental changes in orofacial movements occurring during the early stages of communication development. The goals were to identify developmental trends in early speech motor performance and to determine how these trends differ across orofacial behaviors thought to vary in cognitive and linguistic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Motor Development, Motor Reactions, Change
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Gjems, Liv – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
The purpose of the study reported in this article was to investigate conversations involving dialogue and negotiation of meaning, through which children will learn to talk and talk to learn. In kindergarten children will learn both to listen to language and to use language, but we have few studies of what characterises the qualities of their…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Cognitive Development
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Harding, Carol Gibb; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Child Development, 1979
Attempts to identify the point at which prelinguistic vocalizations are used by infants as a means of communication. A significant relationship between Piagetian causal developmental level and the occurrence of intentional vocalizations was found in a study of 46 infants with a mean age of 10.7 months. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication
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