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Adams, Katherine A.; Marchman, Virginia A.; Loi, Elizabeth C.; Ashland, Melanie D.; Fernald, Anne; Feldman, Heidi M. – Child Development, 2018
This study examined associations between caregiver talk and language skills in full term (FT) and preterm (PT) children (n = 97). All-day recordings of caregiver-child interactions revealed striking similarities in amount of caregiver talk heard by FT and PT children. Children who heard more caregiver talk at 16 months demonstrated better…
Descriptors: Risk, Premature Infants, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
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Fernald, Anne; Marchman, Virginia A. – Child Development, 2012
Using online measures of familiar word recognition in the looking-while-listening procedure, this prospective longitudinal study revealed robust links between processing efficiency and vocabulary growth from 18 to 30 months in children classified as typically developing (n = 46) and as "late talkers" (n = 36) at 18 months. Those late talkers who…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Word Recognition, Language Proficiency, Language Processing