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Wordbank: An Open Repository for Developmental Vocabulary Data
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Frank, Michael C.; Braginsky, Mika; Yurovsky, Daniel; Marchman, Virginia A. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a widely used family of parent-report instruments for easy and inexpensive data-gathering about early language acquisition. CDI data have been used to explore a variety of theoretically important topics, but, with few exceptions, researchers have had to rely on data collected in…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Language Acquisition, Databases
Two-Year-Olds' Sensitivity to Inflectional Plural Morphology: Allomorphic Effects
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Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattanasone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Many English-speaking children use plural nominal forms in spontaneous speech before the age of two, and display some understanding of plural inflection in production tasks. However, results from an intermodal preferential study suggested a lack of "comprehension" of nominal plural morphology at 24 months of age (Kouider, Halberda, Wood,…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, English, Morphology (Languages)
Is She Patting Katie? Constraints on Pronominal Reference in 30-Month-Olds
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Lukyanenko, Cynthia; Conroy, Anastasia; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Learning and Development, 2014
In this study we investigate young children's knowledge of syntactic constraints on Noun Phrase reference by testing 30-month-olds' interpretation of two types of transitive sentences. In a preferential looking task, we find that children prefer different interpretations for transitive sentences whose object NP is a name (e.g., "She's patting…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Preferences, Syntax
Early Delayed Language Development in Very Preterm Infants: Evidence from the MacArthur-Bates CDI
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Foster-Cohen, Susan; Edgin, Jamie O.; Champion, Patricia R.; Woodward, Lianne J. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
This study examined the effects of being born very preterm on children's early language development using prospective longitudinal data from a representative regional cohort of 90 children born very preterm (gestational age less than 33 weeks and/or birth weight less than 1,500 grams) and a comparison sample of 102 children born full term…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Premature Infants, Foreign Countries, Language Skills
Early Lexical Acquisition and the Vocabulary Spurt: A Response to Goldfield and Reznick.
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; Bertrand, Jacqueline – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Vocabulary development of three children, aged 1;6 to 1;8, who had not yet begun to evidence a vocabulary spurt was followed to determine if these children would eventually have a vocabulary spurt. Results of the study are discussed in the context of the argument that a substantial proportion of children never evidence a vocabulary spurt. (JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Measuring Productive Vocabulary of Toddlers in Low-Income Families: Concurrent and Predictive Validity of Three Sources of Data
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Pan, Barbara Alexander; Rowe, Meredith L.; Spier, Elizabeth; Tamis-Lemonda, Catherine – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This study examined parental report as a source of information about toddlers' productive vocabulary in 105 low-income families living in either urban or rural communities. Parental report using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory-Short Form (CDI) at child age 2;0 was compared to concurrent spontaneous speech measures and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Correlation, Child Language, Language Acquisition