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The Linguistic Complexity of Adult and Child Contextualized and Decontextualized Talk
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Brinchmann, Ellen Irén; Røe-Indregård, Hanne; Karlsen, Jannicke; Schauber, Stefan Kilian; Hagtvet, Bente Eriksen – Child Development, 2023
The association between decontextualized talk (DT; i.e., talk extending beyond immediate context) and child language outcomes is well-attested but not well-understood. This study tested the hypothesis that DT is more linguistically complex than contextualized talk (CT). Thirty-eight Norwegian children (M[subscript age] = 5.5 years; 25 girls; 30…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Picture Books
Naturalistic Language Recordings Reveal "Hypervocal" Infants at High Familial Risk for Autism
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Swanson, Meghan R.; Shen, Mark D.; Wolff, Jason J.; Boyd, Brian; Clements, Mark; Rehg, James; Elison, Jed T.; Paterson, Sarah; Parish-Morris, Julia; Chappell, J. Chad; Hazlett, Heather C.; Emerson, Robert W.; Botteron, Kelly; Pandey, Juhi; Schultz, Robert T.; Dager, Stephen R.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Estes, Annette M.; Piven, Joseph – Child Development, 2018
Children's early language environments are related to later development. Little is known about this association in siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often experience language delays or have ASD. Fifty-nine 9-month-old infants at high or low familial risk for ASD contributed full-day in-home language recordings.…
Descriptors: Infants, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Environmental Influences
Early Action and Gesture "Vocabulary" and Its Relation with Word Comprehension and Production
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Caselli, Maria Cristina; Rinaldi, Pasquale; Stefanini, Silvia; Volterra, Virginia – Child Development, 2012
Data from 492 Italian infants (8-18 months) were collected with the parental questionnaire MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories to describe early actions and gestures (A-G) "vocabulary" and its relation with spoken vocabulary in both comprehension and production. A-G were more strongly correlated with word comprehension…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Object Manipulation, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary
Language-Specific Developmental Differences in Speech Production: A Cross-Language Acoustic Study
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Li, Fangfang – Child Development, 2012
Speech productions of 40 English- and 40 Japanese-speaking children (aged 2-5) were examined and compared with the speech produced by 20 adult speakers (10 speakers per language). Participants were recorded while repeating words that began with "s" and "sh" sounds. Clear language-specific patterns in adults' speech were found,…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech, Oral Language, Adults
The Integration of Verbal and Motor Behavior in Preschool Children.
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Goodman, Sherryl Hope – Child Development, 1981
Results of a study of 38 preschool children observed and videotaped during performance on a jigsaw-puzzle task indicate that puzzle solutions accompanied by a high rate of verbalizations were judged as more proficient, solved with a high rate of puzzle-solving moves, and completed in a shorter period of time. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Object Manipulation, Oral Language, Preschool Children
Leopards Are Kitty-Cats: Object Labeling by Mothers for Their Thirteen-Month-Olds.
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; Mervis, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 1982
Tests the hypothesis that mothers would label objects with adult-basic level terms when talking to other adults, but would label the same objects with child-basic terms when speaking to their young children who were just starting to talk, even though these labels may be very much "incorrect" by adult standards. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Age and Sex Differences in Interaction with a Human Infant.
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Blakemore, Judith E. O. – Child Development, 1981
Examines sex differences in vocalizations and play behaviors displayed toward an infant by preschoolers, preadolescents, and adults. Preschoolers showed less interaction than older subjects. Males talked and played less with the baby than did females at all ages; however, among adult subjects, no sex-role effects were found. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Language, Children