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Kapalková, Svetlana; Polišenská, Kamila; Süssová, Martina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
A training study examined novel word learning in 2-year-old children and assessed two nonverbal mechanisms, pictures and gestures, which are commonly used as communication support. The aim was to (1) compare these two support mechanisms and measure their effects on expressive word learning and (2) to investigate these effects on word production…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Visual Aids, Nonverbal Communication, Language Acquisition
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Ettlinger, Marc; Lanter, Jennifer; Van Pay, Craig K. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Does the language we speak affect the way we think, and if so, how? Previous researchers have considered this question by exploring the cognitive abilities of speakers of different languages. In the present study, we looked for evidence of linguistic relativity within a language and within participants by looking at memory recall for monolingual…
Descriptors: Memory, Language, Speech, Recall (Psychology)