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Child-Level Factors Associated with Spanish-English Bilingual Toddlers' Productive Vocabulary Growth
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Direct linkPerla B. Gámez; Maily Galindo; Carla Jáuregui – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This longitudinal study - conducted in the Midwestern United States - examines the child-level factors that promote Spanish-English bilingual toddlers' (n = 47; M[subscript age] = 18.80 months; SD[subscript age] = 0.57) productive vocabulary skills from 18 to 30 months of age. At 6-month intervals, caregivers reported on toddlers' Spanish and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Longitudinal Studies, Bilingualism, Spanish
Miranda Gómez Díaz; Laia Fibla; Rachel Ka-Ying Tsui; Krista Byers-Heinlein – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Sometime before their second birthday, many children have a period of rapid expressive vocabulary growth called the vocabulary spurt. Theories of the underlying mechanisms differ: Accumulator models emphasize the accumulation of experience with words over time to yield a spurtlike pattern, while cognitive models attribute the spurt to cognitive…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism
Edgar, Elizabeth V.; Todd, James Torrence; Eschman, Bret; Hayes, Timothy; Bahrick, Lorraine E. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Recent research has demonstrated that individual differences in infant attention to faces and voices of women speaking predict language outcomes in childhood. These findings have been generated using two new audiovisual attention assessments appropriate for infants and young children, the Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) and the…
Descriptors: English, Spanish, Infants, Attention
Singh, Leher; Wewalaarachchi, Thilanga D. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Most children learn a language such as Mandarin Chinese that uses lexical tone to communicate meaning. This study aimed to examine the phonological specificity of tone representations in monolingual and bilingual learners of Mandarin. Two age-groups were tested: toddlers (2.5 to 3.5 years) and preschoolers (4 to 5 years; N = 80). Using a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Speakers, Tone Languages, Word Recognition
Winstone, Laura K.; Benitez, Viridiana L.; van Huisstede, Lauren – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Children learn the words of their native language(s) from interactions with their caregivers. Although previous research has found that the language children hear during those interactions predicts vocabulary outcomes, few studies have investigated how qualitative features of social interactions work together to affect children's vocabulary…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Preschool Children
Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Segalowitz, Norman; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Developmental Psychology, 2019
A talking face provides redundant cues on the mouth that might support language learning and highly salient social cues in the eyes. What drives children's looking toward the mouth versus eyes of a talking face? This study reports data from 292 children who viewed faces speaking English, French, and Russian. We investigated the impact of…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, Age Differences, Monolingualism
