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Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew; Holt, Janet K.; Papastratakos, Theodora; Hsu, Ning; Kubalanza, Mary; McKenna, Megan M. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Purpose: The current study used an intervention design to test the hypothesis that parent input sentences with diverse lexical noun phrase (NP) subjects would accelerate growth in children's sentence diversity. Method: Child growth in third person sentence diversity was modeled from 21-30 months (n = 38) in conversational language samples obtained…
Descriptors: Parents, Hypothesis Testing, Control Groups, Toddlers
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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Licata, Maria; Thoermer, Claudia; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Children's talk about the mind has been scarcely studied in non-English speakers. For this reason, this longitudinal study documents age-related changes in German-speaking children's internal state language. At 24, 30 and 36?months, children were administered general language tests and their internal state vocabulary levels were obtained via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers
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Rescorla, Leslie; Lee, Youn Mi Cathy; Oh, Kyung Ja; Kim, Young Ah – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors aimed to compare vocabulary size, lexical composition, and late talking in large samples of Korean and U.S. children ages 18-35 months. Method: Data for 2,191 Korean children (211 children recruited "offline" through preschools, and 1,980 recruited "online" via the Internet) and 274 U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Korean, Vocabulary Development, Lexicology
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Goldfield, Beverly A.; Reznick, J. Steven – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Replies to a report on three toddlers who evidenced a late vocabulary spurt. The article argues that differences in assessing productive vocabulary and the questionable inference that size of the lexicon is a reliable indicator of the vocabulary spurt make it inappropriate to compare these children to previous studies directly measuring change in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Measurement, Data Analysis, Developmental Stages
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Christophe, Anne; Guasti, Teresa; Nespor, Marina; Van Ooyen, Brit; Dupoux, Emmanuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Reviews the hypothesis, "phonological bootstrapping," that a purely phonological analysis of the speech signal may allow infants to start acquiring the lexicon and syntax of their native language. Study presents a model of phonological bootstrapping of the lexicon and syntax that helps illustrate the congruence between problems. Article argues…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Hypothesis Testing