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Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development
Hila Gendler-Shalev; Rama Novogrodsky – First Language, 2024
Toddlers with smaller vocabulary than expected for their age are considered late talkers (LT). This study explored the effects of characteristics of words on vocabulary acquisition of 12- to 24-month-old LT children compared with an age matched (AM) and a vocabulary matched (VM) group of typically developing peers. Using the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phonology, Hebrew, Language Skills
Shatz, Itamar – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Phonological selectivity is a phenomenon where children preselect which target words they attempt to produce. The present study examines selectivity in the acquisition of complex onsets and codas in English, and specifically in the acquisition of biconsonantal (CC) clusters in each position compared to triconsonantal (CCC) clusters. The data come…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, English
McDaniel, Jena; Benítez-Barrera, Carlos R.; Soares, Ana C.; Vargas, Andrea; Camarata, Stephen – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2019
Effective vocabulary interventions for children with hearing loss, including children who are bilingual, are needed because of persistent vocabulary deficits in this population. Current instructional practices for children with hearing loss who are bilingual vary in the degree to which they incorporate the language the child uses at home.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Bilingual Education, Monolingualism
Davis, Barbara; van der Feest, Suzanne; Yi, Hoyoung – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study investigates whether the earliest words children choose to say are mainly words containing sounds they can produce (cf. 'phonological dominance' hypotheses), or whether children choose words without regard to their phonological characteristics (cf. 'lexical dominance' hypotheses). Phonological properties of words in spontaneous speech…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Child Language, Language Usage, Phonology
Wright Karem, Rachel; Washington, Karla N. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of standardized assessments of expressive grammar and vocabulary in a sample of preschool-age dual language learners (DLLs) who use Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Adult models from the same linguistic community as these children were used to inform culturally and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Standardized Tests, Preschool Children, Expressive Language
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay; Kim, Eun Sook – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study investigates both the proximal processes and contextual influences on children's oral language development in preschool. We examine whether teacher language practices vary across activity settings and program type, which teacher language practices predict children's oral language skills, and potential…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Context Effect, Oral Language, Language Acquisition
Jones, Samuel David; Brandt, Silke – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: This study reexamines the claim that difficulty forming memories of words comprising uncommon sound sequences (i.e., low phonological neighborhood density words) is a determinant of delayed expressive vocabulary development (e.g., Stokes, 2014). Method: We modeled communicative development inventory data from (N = 442) 18-month-old…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Expressive Language, Correlation, Vocabulary Development
Horvath, Sabrina; Rescorla, Leslie; Arunachalam, Sudha – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Children with language disorders have particular difficulty with verbs, but when this difficulty emerges is unknown. We examined syntactic (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) and semantic (manner, result) features of two-year-olds' verb vocabularies, contrasting late talkers and typically developing children to look for early differences in…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Toddlers, Verbs
Zampini, Laura; Burla, Tiziana; Silibello, Gaia; Capelli, Elena; Dall'Ara, Francesca; Rigamonti, Claudia; Ajmone, Paola Francesca; Monti, Federico; Zanchi, Paola; Lalatta, Faustina; Costantino, Maria Antonella; Vizziello, Paola Giovanna – First Language, 2021
Individuals with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) have an increased risk of language delays and impairments. However, there are only a few data relative to their language development in early childhood. The present study aimed to investigate the preverbal skills shown by a group of 8-month-old children with SCTs to assess the presence of a possible…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Language Acquisition, Infants, Genetic Disorders
Schwarz, Amy Louise; Van Kleeck, Anne; Maguire, Mandy J.; Abdi, Herve – Journal of Child Language, 2017
To better understand how toddlers integrate multiple learning strategies to acquire verbs, we compared sensorimotor recruitment and comparison learning because both strategies are thought to boost children's access to scene-level information. For sensorimotor recruitment, we tested having toddlers use dolls as agents and compared this strategy…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Verbs
Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena; Bailey, Jhonelle; Schmuck, Lauren – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Early spontaneous gesture, specifically deictic gesture, predicts subsequent vocabulary development in typically developing (TD) children. Here, we ask whether deictic gesture plays a similar role in predicting later vocabulary size in children with Down Syndrome (DS), who have been shown to have difficulties in speech production, but strengths in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Infant Behavior, Nonverbal Communication
Kruythoff-Broekman, Astrid; Wiefferink, Carin; Rieffe, Carolien; Uilenburg, Noëlle – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2019
Background: Late language emergence is a risk indicator for developmental language disorder. Parent-implemented early language intervention programmes (parent programmes) have been shown to have positive effects on children's receptive and expressive language skills. However, long-term effectiveness has rarely been studied. Additionally, little is…
Descriptors: Child Language, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship
Mastin, J. Douglas; Voght, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study analyzes how others engage rural and urban Mozambican infants during naturalistic observations, and how the proportion of time spent in different engagements relates to infants' language development over the second year of life. Using an extended version of Bakeman and Adamson's (1984) categorization of infant engagement, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Language, Infants, Vocabulary Development
Xuan, Lei; Dollaghan, Christine – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Most evidence concerning cross-linguistic variation in noun bias, the preponderance of nouns in early expressive lexicons (Gentner, 1982), has come from comparisons of monolingual children acquiring different languages. Such designs are susceptible to a number of potential confounders, including group differences in developmental level and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Nouns, Language Research, Bilingualism