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Gender Differences in Children's Language: A Meta-Analysis of Slovenian Studies
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
Child gender has been proved to affect toddlers'/children's language development in several studies, but its effect was not found to be stable across different ages or various aspects of language ability. The effect of gender on toddler's, children's and adolescents' language ability was examined in the present meta-analysis of ten Slovenian…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Meta Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Input Subject Diversity Enhances Early Grammatical Growth: Evidence from a Parent-Implemented Intervention
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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