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Interactions between Lexical and Phonological Development: Cross-Linguistic and Contextual Considerations--A Commentary on Stoel-Gammon's "Relationships between Lexical and Phonological Development in Young Children"
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Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Stoel-Gammon (this issue) provides a welcome addition to the phonological acquisition literature, bringing together insights from long-standing and more recent research to address the relationship between the developing phonological system and the developing lexicon. A growing literature on children's early use of words across languages and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Cross Cultural Studies
What Can We Learn from Toddlers about Categorical Perception of Color? Comments on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson
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Franklin, Anna; Wright, Oliver; Davies, Ian R. L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We comment on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson's replication and extension ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102", 219-238 [2009]) of our study of the effect of toddlers' color term knowledge on their categorical perception (CP) of color ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90", 114-141 [2005]). First, we discuss how best to…
Descriptors: Investigations, Toddlers, Word Recognition, Child Psychology
Assessing Lexical Development in Bilingual Babies and Toddlers.
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Pearson, Barbara – International Journal of Bilingualism, 1998
Discusses measures of infants and toddlers developing vocabularies. Suggests that what is needed are norms derived from observations of typically-developing bilingual children, followed up by measures of concurrent and predictive validity. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Language Acquisition, Measures (Individuals)
Measuring the Vocabulary Spurt: A Reply to Mervis & Bertrand.
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Goldfield, Beverly A.; Reznick, J. Steven – Journal of Child Language, 1996
Replies to a report on three toddlers who evidenced a late vocabulary spurt. The article argues that differences in assessing productive vocabulary and the questionable inference that size of the lexicon is a reliable indicator of the vocabulary spurt make it inappropriate to compare these children to previous studies directly measuring change in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Measurement, Data Analysis, Developmental Stages
The Instrument Is Great, but Measuring Comprehension Is Still a Problem.
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Tomasello, Michael; Mervis, Carolyn B. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) represent a breakthrough in measuring early language production. Nevertheless, the CDIs' word comprehension component may not be a valid measure, because parents report too high a word comprehension ability for their children. Suggests that administering the CDIs to parents in an interview…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Infants, Interviews, Language Acquisition
Short-Form Versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories.
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Fenson, Larry; Pethick, Steve; Renda, Connie; Cox, Jeffrey L.; Dale, Philip S.; Reznick, J. Steven – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
Describes short-form versions of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) and their development, summarizes newly available normative data and psychometric properties of the instruments, and discusses research and clinical applications. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Communication Skills, Evaluation Methods, Infants
On the Nature of Informant Judgments in Inventory Measures: . . . And So What Is It You Want to Know?
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Stiles, Joan – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1994
Considers the bases of criticism of parent report as an index of their children's behavioral development and ways in which problems associated with parent report were addressed in the construction of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). Examines the nature of responses elicited from parents as they complete the CDIs. (BC)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Body Language, Child Behavior, Data Collection