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Alejandra Abufhele; Agustina Laurito – Child Development, 2024
This paper estimates the acute effect of community-level homicides on early childhood language development and explores the moderating role of maternal efficacy and satisfaction in Chile. It uses data from the 2017 wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey of Chilean Children (N = 1194, M[subscript age]: 52.8 months, 52% girls). Children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Early Experience
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Helo, Andrea; Guerra, Ernesto; Coloma, Carmen Julia; Reyes, María Antonia; Rämä, Pia – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Visually situated spoken words activate phonological, visual, and semantic representations guiding overt attention during visual exploration. We compared the activation of these representations in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) across four eye-tracking experiments, with a particular focus on visual (shape)…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Semantics, Phonology
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Norambuena, Yeniè S.; Riffo, Bernardo E.; Sáez, Katia L. – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
Despite the important role assigned to analogical reasoning (AR) in cognition and language, the relationship between this ability and language skills in the emergent literacy period has not been sufficiently studied, especially in Spanish speakers. To explore this link, we examined two modalities of AR (verbal and non-verbal) as predictors of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children