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Talking to Talkers: Infants' Talk Status, but Not Their Gender, Is Related to Language Input
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Dailey, Shannon; Bergelson, Elika – Child Development, 2023
Prior research points to gender differences in some early language skills, but is inconclusive about the mechanisms at play, providing evidence that both infants' early input and productions may differ by gender. This study examined the linguistic input and early productions of 44 American English-learning infants (93% White) in a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Linguistic Input, North American English
Semantic Maturation during the Comprehension-Expression Gap in Late and Typical Talkers
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Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the influence of semantic maturation on early lexical development by examining the impact of contextual diversity--known to influence semantic development--on word promotion from receptive to productive vocabularies (i.e., comprehension-expression gap). Study 1 compares the vocabularies of 3685 American-English-speaking…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Delayed Speech