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Lee, Crystal; Lew-Williams, Casey – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Children learn words in a social environment, facilitated in part by social cues from caregivers, such as eye-gaze and gesture. A common assumption is that social cues convey either perceptual or social information, depending on the age of the child. In this review of research on word learning and social cues during early childhood, we propose…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Child Language
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Frank, Michael C.; Braginsky, Mika; Yurovsky, Daniel; Marchman, Virginia A. – Journal of Child Language, 2017
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a widely used family of parent-report instruments for easy and inexpensive data-gathering about early language acquisition. CDI data have been used to explore a variety of theoretically important topics, but, with few exceptions, researchers have had to rely on data collected in…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Measures (Individuals), Language Acquisition, Databases
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Lederer, Susan Hendler – Young Exceptional Children, 2014
For children developing language typically, exposure to language through the natural, general language stimulation provided by families, siblings, and others is sufficient enough to facilitate language learning (Bloom & Lahey, 1978; Nelson, 1973; Owens, 2008). However, children with language delays (even those who are receptively and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Language Acquisition, Curriculum Design, Early Intervention
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Collins, Molly F. – Young Children, 2012
Adults often use simple words instead of complex words when talking to young children. Reasons vary from teachers' beliefs that young children cannot understand sophisticated vocabulary because they are too young or have limited language skills, to teachers' unfamiliarity with complex words or with strategies for supporting vocabulary. As a…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Early Childhood Education
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Hay, Ian; Fielding-Barnsley, Ruth – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
This article supports the claim that there are strong interactive links between children's language development, cognitive reasoning and their success in school achievement. These links are best facilitated within a social learning framework where children's language and talk is encouraged, accepted and respected. This talk is the most authentic…
Descriptors: Socialization, Academic Achievement, Receptive Language, Language Acquisition
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Musolino, Julien – Cognition, 2009
Recent work on the acquisition of number words has emphasized the importance of integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives [Musolino, J. (2004). The semantics and acquisition of number words: Integrating linguistic and developmental perspectives. "Cognition 93", 1-41; Papafragou, A., Musolino, J. (2003). Scalar implicatures: Scalar…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Syntax
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Clark, Eve V. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
In learning the meaning of a new term, children need to fix its reference, learn its conventional meaning, and discover the meanings with which it contrasts. To do this, children must attend to adult speakers--the experts--and to their patterns of use. In the domain of color, children need to identify color terms as such, fix the reference of each…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Adults, Children, Color
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Wasik, Barbara A.; Bond, Mary Alice; Hindman, Annemarie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
A language and literacy intervention was implemented in 10 Head Start classrooms. Teachers were trained in specific book reading and conversation strategies. The focus of the intervention was to train teachers how to increase opportunities for language and vocabulary development in young children. At the end of the year, children in the…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention
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Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Six lexical principles for object label learning are evaluated. In this framework, lexical acquisition changes as a result of the particular principles a given child has at his or her disposal. These principles were developed for the class of object labels but may also apply across other early-appearing word classes. (Contains 98 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Infants, Language Acquisition
Neuman, Susan B. – Early Childhood Today, 2006
Language and vocabulary represent the very foundation of learning to read and write. Children who do not develop strong oral language skills and vocabulary in these early years will find it difficult to keep pace with their peers. Children use the natural medium of language for thinking. Those who acquire a substantial vocabulary are often able to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy, Oral Language, Language Skills
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Searls, Evelyn F.; and Klesius, Janell P. – Reading Psychology, 1984
Describes the development of a 99-word multiple meaning word list and offers activities designed to develop children's knowledge of multiple meaning words. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Child Language, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
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Mervis, Carolyn B.; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1993
Comments on the article by Jones and Smith in this issue. Describes a program of research that demonstrates the important influence of perception on the structure of concepts. Proposes that both perceptual and nonperceptual information are important to conceptual structure throughout the continuum of knowledge acquisition and that perception is a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
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Goldman, Milton – TESOL Journal, 1996
Discusses sample lessons incorporating captioned TV that have been found useful in English-as-a-Second-Language classes. Argues that captioned television is a dynamic supplemental teaching aid that an imaginative teacher can embellish with various before-, during-, and after-viewing activities. (Six references) (CK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Captions, Child Language
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Pitchford, N. J.; Mullen, K. T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
When learning basic color vocabulary, young children show a selective delay in the acquisition of brown and gray relative to other basic color terms. In this study, we first establish the robustness of this finding and then investigate the extent to which perception, language, and color preference may influence color conceptualization.…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Young Children, Color, Vocabulary Development
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Richards, Brian – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Type/Token Ratios (TTRs) frequently fail to discriminate between children at widely different stages of language development, and may fall as children get older. Such effects are caused by a negative, though non-linear, relationship between sample size and TTR. Standardization of the number of tokens before computing TTRs is recommended.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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