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Semantic Maturation during the Comprehension-Expression Gap in Late and Typical Talkers
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Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the influence of semantic maturation on early lexical development by examining the impact of contextual diversity--known to influence semantic development--on word promotion from receptive to productive vocabularies (i.e., comprehension-expression gap). Study 1 compares the vocabularies of 3685 American-English-speaking…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Delayed Speech
Does Early Child Language Predict Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence? An Investigation in Two Birth Cohorts Born 30 Years Apart
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Thornton, Emma; Patalay, Praveetha; Matthews, Danielle; Bannard, Colin – Child Development, 2021
Language is vital for social interaction, leading some to suggest early linguistic ability paves the way for good adolescent mental health. The relation between age-5 vocabulary and adolescent internalizing symptoms was examined in two U.K. birth cohorts that are nationally representative in terms of sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status: the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries
Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities
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Brookman, Ruth; Kalashnikova, Marina; Conti, Janet; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Grant, Kerry-Ann; Demuth, Katherine; Burnham, Denis – Child Development, 2020
This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on infants' home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills. Mothers and their infants (at 6 and 12 months; 21 mothers with depression and or anxiety and 21 controls) provided day-long home-language recordings. Compared with…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Mothers, Mental Health
Dual Language and English-Only Learners' Expressive and Receptive Language Skills and Exposure to Peers' Language
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Gámez, Perla B.; Griskell, Holly L.; Sobrevilla, Yaxal N.; Vazquez, Melissa – Child Development, 2019
This study examined dual language learners' (DLLs n = 24) and English-only (EO n = 20) children's expressive and receptive language in kindergarten (M[subscript age] = 5.7 years) as well as the relation to peers' language use. Expressive language skills (vocabulary diversity, syntactic complexity) were measured in the fall, winter, and spring…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Language Usage
Language Use Contributes to Expressive Language Growth: Evidence from Bilingual Children
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Ribot, Krystal M.; Hoff, Erika; Burridge, Andrea – Child Development, 2018
The unique relation of language use (i.e., output) to language growth was investigated for forty-seven 30-month-old Spanish-English bilingual children (27 girls, 20 boys) whose choices of which language to speak resulted in their levels of English output differing from their levels of English input. English expressive vocabularies and receptive…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingualism, Expressive Language, Interpersonal Communication
Sleep Disturbance and Expressive Language Development in Preschool-Age Children with Down Syndrome
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Edgin, Jamie O.; Tooley, Ursula; Demara, Bianca; Nyhuis, Casandra; Anand, Payal; Spanò, Goffredina – Child Development, 2015
Recent evidence has suggested that sleep may facilitate language learning. This study examined variation in language ability in 29 toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) in relation to levels of sleep disruption. Toddlers with DS and poor sleep (66%, n = 19) showed greater deficits on parent-reported and objective measures of language, including…
Descriptors: Sleep, Down Syndrome, Comorbidity, Autism
Bidirectionality in Self-Regulation and Expressive Vocabulary: Comparisons between Monolingual and Dual Language Learners in Preschool
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Bohlmann, Natalie L.; Maier, Michelle F.; Palacios, Natalia – Child Development, 2015
Significant differences in language and self-regulation skills exist among children when they enter formal schooling. Contributing to these language differences is a growing population of dual language learners (DLLs) in the United States. Given evidence linking self-regulatory processes and language development, this study explored bidirectional…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Self Control, Language Acquisition