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Peer reviewedGoldin-Meadow, Susan; And Others – Cognition, 1976
Two stages in the vocabulary development of two-year-olds are reported. In the earlier Receptive stage, the child says many fewer nouns than he understands and says no verbs at all although he understands many. The child then enters a Productive stage in which he says virtually all the nouns he understands plus his first verbs. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Comprehension, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedNelson, Katherine – Cognition, 1976
Analysis of 24 spontaneous speech samples from children at 24 and 30 months revealed a correlated progression in the form, function, and meaning of adjective modifiers used with increased language development. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Peer reviewedSamuelson, Larissa K.; Smith, Linda B. – Cognition, 1999
Two experiments examined toddlers' noun vocabularies and interpretations of names for solid and non-solid items. Results indicated that one side of the solidity-syntax-category organization mapping was favored. Seventeen- to 33-month olds do not systematically generalize names for solid things by shape similarity until they already know many…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Classification
