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Heather Johnson; Erika Hoff – Developmental Science, 2025
A basic question about bilingual development is how the acquisition of one language affects the acquisition of the other. Previous findings are few and mixed. The present study addressed this question with longitudinal data on the dual-language vocabulary growth of 149 US-born children from Spanish-speaking immigrant families, who were followed…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism, Emergent Literacy
Katie R. Jobson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Infancy is a period of significant change for both the brain and behavior. During the first two years of life, the brain experiences an explosion of synaptic connections and myelination, alongside rapid development in motor, linguistic, and social behavioral abilities. Understanding the relationship between brain development and behavioral…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Olson, Janet; Masur, Elise – Language Learning and Development, 2020
The current study examined how mothers' production of four types of internal state words at multiple ages across the second year in a free play context was related to their infants' acquisition of those words. Twenty-nine mother-infant dyads were videotaped for 18 minutes during free play when infants were 13 and 17 months old. Mothers' total and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Play, Infants
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Kellogg, David; Shin, Ji-young – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2018
Vygotsky measured his 'zone of proximal development' in years. To do this, he needed a scheme of age periods, and a set of tasks that could diagnose the next age period without defining it. In this paper, we compare the age periods in his late lectures with Halliday's categories of logico-semantic expansion as used by three adolescent…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Adolescent Development, Problem Solving, Ability
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Lindgren, Josefin – First Language, 2019
This article reports results from a longitudinal study from age 4 to 7 of comprehension and production of narrative macrostructure in Swedish monolingual children (N = 17). "Baby Birds/Baby Goats" from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) were used to elicit narratives and ask comprehension questions at age…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Acquisition, Swedish, Language Processing
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Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Filip, Anna; Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Kus, Katarzyna; O'Neill, Daniela K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: To date, there is no tool for assessing early pragmatic development of Polish-speaking children. This study aimed to adapt to Polish a standardized parent report measure, the Language Use Inventory (LUI; O'Neill, 2009, in order to enable cross-cultural comparisons and to use the LUI-Polish to screen for pragmatic development in children…
Descriptors: Polish, Pragmatics, Measures (Individuals), Parent Attitudes