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Direct linkCorrigan, Roberta – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
There are individual differences in the amount and type of vocabulary that adults produce to young children in the home environment before the children enter school. How many words a mother knows is a significant predictor of a child's vocabulary. The current study addressed the question of whether there were individual differences in the amount…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Aloud to Others, Semantics, Individual Differences
Corrigan, Roberta – Journal of Child Language, 2008
This study examined information about adjective meanings available in adults' spoken discourse in the original 27 CHILDES corpora of typically developing English-speaking children. In order to increase the probability that adjectives would be novel to children to whom they were addressed, only "rare" adjectives were examined (those that occurred…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics
