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Direct linkDaphna Harel; Deanna Goudelias; Hung-Shao Cheng; Melissa M. Baese-Berk; Rachel M. Theodore; Susannah V. Levi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Numerous tasks have been developed to measure receptive vocabulary, many of which were designed to be administered in person with a trained researcher or clinician. The purpose of the current study is to compare a common, in-person test of vocabulary with other vocabulary assessments that can be self-administered. Method: Fifty-three…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Vocabulary, Intelligence Tests, Adults
Download full textWilliam Albert Swinsburg – Online Submission, 2024
Ultra-processed food consumption is a globally increasing trend (Pagliai et al., 2021) correlated with increased obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and all-cause mortality (Elizabeth et al., 2020). American college students consume twice as many calories from ultra-processed food, compared to minimally processed food (Juul et al., 2022),…
Descriptors: Food, Verbal Ability, Language Fluency, College Students
Martin Zettersten; Catherine Bredemann; Megan Kaul; Kaitlynn Ellis; Haley A. Vlach; Heather Kirkorian; Gary Lupyan – Child Development, 2024
The present study tested the hypothesis that verbal labels support category induction by providing compact hypotheses. Ninety-seven 4- to 6-year-old children (M = 63.2 months; 46 female, 51 male; 77% White, 8% more than one race, 4% Asian, and 3% Black; tested 2018) and 90 adults (M = 20.1 years; 70 female, 20 male) in the Midwestern United States…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Difficulty Level, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Jens Möller – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Dimensional comparison theory (DCT; Möller & Marsh 2013:Psychological Review, 120(3), 544-560), first formulated 10 years ago, describes individuals' internal comparison processes applied between different areas of their lives. Dimensional comparisons explain the seemingly counterintuitive phenomenon that students' verbal and mathematical…
Descriptors: Theories, Educational Psychology, Self Concept, Verbal Ability
Sarah Garfinkel; Meredith L. Rowe; Sandra Bosacki; Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak – Journal of Child Language, 2024
This study investigated links between the development of children's understanding of ironic comments and their metapragmatic knowledge. Forty-six 8-year-olds completed the short version of the Irony Comprehension Task, during which they were presented with ironic comments in three stories and asked to provide reasons for why the speaker in a story…
Descriptors: Children, Figurative Language, Comprehension, Pragmatics
Lauren E. Flynn; Laura K. Allen – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2025
This study investigates how individual differences related to creative and verbal fluencies can be differentiated and modelled through the linguistic features that manifest in student writing. Using computational linguistics, we analyzed samples of intrapersonal writing to extract linguistic features that align to specific dimensions of language.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Language Fluency, Verbal Ability, Writing Ability
Denitza Dramkin; Darko Odic – Developmental Science, 2024
As adults, we represent and think about number, space, and time in at least two ways: our intuitive--but imprecise--perceptual representations, and the slowly learned--but precise--number words. With development, these representational formats interface, allowing us to use precise number words to estimate imprecise perceptual experiences. We test…
Descriptors: Child Development, Numbers, Vocabulary Development, Numeracy
Jena McDaniel – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Multiple contemporary theories emphasize the quantity and quality of child vocalizations for promoting spoken language acquisition. Yet, empirical evidence for facilitating vocal development is strikingly lacking including for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have difficulty developing language. We evaluate use of contingent…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Verbal Communication, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Anna Amadó; Francesc Sidera; Elisabet Serrat – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Background: Previous literature suggests that children with Down syndrome (DS) have difficulties in cognitive and affective components of Theory of Mind (ToM). However, the nature of the distinction between cognitive and affective ToM has not yet been addressed in depth in this population. Aims: This work is aimed at studying the cognitive and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Down Syndrome, Theory of Mind
Ishanti Gangopadhyay; Daniel Fulford; Kathleen Corriveau; Jessica Mow; Pearl Han Li; Sudha Arunachalam – Cognitive Science, 2024
Understanding cognitive effort expended during assessments is essential to improving efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility within these assessments. Pupil dilation is commonly used as a psychophysiological measure of cognitive effort, yet research on its relationship with effort expended specifically during language processing is limited. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Difficulty Level, Motor Reactions, Cognitive Ability
Mario Figueroa; Sònia Darbra – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The evidence on the effect of age on the receptive and expressive language skills of individuals with Down syndrome is inconclusive. Recent research highlights the relevance of having tools to detect age-related changes in language skills. Method: Data were collected on 45 adults with Down syndrome. All were assessed with the Peabody…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Aging (Individuals), Adults, Down Syndrome
Anna McGuiness; Lara Travethan; Kylie Irvin; Yvette Black; Jessica Apps; Kathleen Corinth; Jessica Kennedy; Verenna Zenay Brown; Carla Morgan; Greg Quartly-Scott; Pieter Van Rensburg; Kim Rusten; Chloe Gott; Julia Lappin; Nicole Sugden; Julaine Allan; Frances Dark; Heidi Gray; Grace Thomas; Ashley Hollow; Matt Thomas – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Impairment in aspects of communication is a core diagnostic feature of schizophrenia and other psychotic spectrum disorders. These communication difficulties inhibit participation in a range of daily activities and affect relationships and quality of life. There has been little research focussed on communication outcomes in relation to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schizophrenia, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
Lee Mason; Alexis Bolds; Maeve Gavagan; Chris Ninness – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2025
A growing body of literature supports the use of echoic prompts toward conditioning other functional language skills. However, many individuals with autism spectrum disorder do not emit echoic behavior. Identifying the prerequisite skills of an echoic repertoire may be beneficial for intervention planning and clinical decision making. A chart…
Descriptors: Repetition, Acoustics, Imitation, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kelsie McGowan; Daniel Berends; Kristelle Hudry; Giacomo Vivanti; Cheryl Dissanayake; Catherine A. Bent – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
We explored associations among the core behavioural features and developmental/cognitive abilities of 155 autistic children, assessed between ages 13-67 months and again around 1-year later to understand predictive directionality. Bidirectional, cross-domain association was apparent, albeit with stronger direction of effect from earlier cognition…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Cognitive Ability, Young Children
Anna Elizabeth Kambach; Heidi Anne Mesmer – Reading Teacher, 2024
This article discusses language comprehension and developing skills with emergent readers, in particular verbal reasoning and language structures, that are necessary for later reading comprehension.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading, Reading Skills, Skill Development
