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When Does an Ostrich Become a Bird? The Role of Typicality in Early Word Comprehension.
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Meints, Kerstin; Plunkett, Kim; Harris, Paul L. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two experiments used the preferential looking task to assess early word comprehension in 12- to 24-month olds. Results indicated that when target stimuli were named, 12-month olds displayed an increase in target looking for typical--but not atypical--targets, whereas 18- and 24-month olds displayed increases for both. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition
Rapid Change in Lexical Development in Comprehension and Production.
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Reznick, J. Steven; Goldfield, Beverly A. – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Word comprehension tests were given to 24 infants at 2-month intervals. Parents of 18 of the infants kept a diary of the children's verbal production. Comprehension scores revealed a vocabulary spurt for some children. The presence of a comprehension spurt was associated with a word production spurt. (BC)
Descriptors: Eye Fixations, Infants, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension
Phonological Short-Term Memory and New Word Learning in Children.
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Gathercole, Susan E.; Hitch, Graham J.; Service, Elisabet; Martin, Amanda J. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined phonological short-term memory and new word learning in 5-year olds. Found that learning sound structures of new words was significantly, and to some degree independently, associated with aspects of phonological memory skill and vocabulary knowledge. Learning of familiar word pairs was linked with current vocabulary knowledge, not with…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Memory, Nonverbal Ability, Phonology
Lexical Development during Middle Infancy: A Mutually Driven Infant-Caregiver Process.
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Dunham, Philip; Dunham, Frances – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers' utterances were measured during interactions with their 13-month-old infants and correlated with measures of infants' productive lexical development at 13 and 24 months. Correlations between maternal measures and infants' lexical development were lower for employed mothers than for mothers who were full-time caregivers. (BC)
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Acquisition
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