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ERIC Number: EJ1155818
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Sep
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1092-4388
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Input Subject Diversity Accelerates the Growth of Tense and Agreement: Indirect Benefits from a Parent-Implemented Intervention
Hadley, Pamela A.; Rispoli, Matthew; Holt, Janet K.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v60 n9 p2619-2635 Sep 2017
Purpose: This follow-up study examined whether a parent intervention that increased the diversity of lexical noun phrase subjects in parent input and accelerated children's sentence diversity (Hadley et al., 2017) had indirect benefits on tense/agreement (T/A) morphemes in parent input and children's spontaneous speech. Method: Differences in input variables related to T/A marking were compared for parents who received toy talk instruction and a quasi-control group: input informativeness and full is declaratives. Language growth on tense agreement productivity (TAP) was modeled for 38 children from language samples obtained at 21, 24, 27, and 30 months. Parent input properties following instruction and children's growth in lexical diversity and sentence diversity were examined as predictors of TAP growth. Results: Instruction increased parent use of full is declaratives (? = 0.25) but not input informativeness. Children's sentence diversity was also a significant time-varying predictor of TAP growth. Two input variables, lexical noun phrase subject diversity and full is declaratives, were also significant predictors, even after controlling for children's sentence diversity. Conclusions: These findings establish a link between children's sentence diversity and the development of T/A morphemes and provide evidence about characteristics of input that facilitate growth in this grammatical system.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: R21HD071316