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Acquisition of Emotion-Descriptive Language: Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Norms for Ages 18 Months to 6 Years.

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Ridgeway, Doreen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985

Reports on data collected in nine age ranges from 18 months to 71 months that examined children's ability to understand emotion-descriptive adjectives when used by adults and their own use of these words in productive vocabulary. (HOD)

Descriptors: Adjectives, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Language

Early Vocabulary Growth: Relation to Language Input and Gender.

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Huttenlocher, Janellen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991

Examined the role of exposure to speech in children's vocabulary growth. Characterized vocabulary growth rates for children from 14 to 26 months of age. Found a relation between individual differences in vocabulary acquisition and variations in the amount of a mother's speech to her children. (BC)

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Individual Differences, Infants, Language Acquisition