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Direct linkDevescovi, Antonella; Caselli, Maria Cristina; Marchione, Daniela; Pasqualetti, Patrizio; Reilly, Judy; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2005
The relationship between grammatical and lexical development was compared in 233 English and 233 Italian children aged between 1;6 and 2;6, matched for age, gender, and vocabulary size on the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI). Four different measures of Mean Length of Utterance were applied to the three longest utterances…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedBates, Elizabeth; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1994
Provides evidence for developmental changes in the composition of the lexicon, reflecting a shift in emphasis from reference, to predication, to grammar. Findings show that the study of qualitative variation in lexical style is confounded by quantitative variation in rate of lexical development. Tables are appended. (Contains 42 references.) (JP)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Stages, Grammar, Infants
Peer reviewedMarchman, Virginia A.; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 1994
This paper outlines the degree to which age and verb vocabulary size are predictive of changes in the reported usage of English verbs that are irregular in their past tense form in a sample of more than 1,000 children. (Contains 40 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Age, Child Language, English, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedCaselli, Cristina; Casadio, Paola; Bates, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Examined cross-linguistic similarities and differences in early lexical and grammatical development among English- and Italian-speaking preschoolers. Parents completed surveys on vocabulary size, vocabulary composition, and grammatical complexity. No cross-linguistic differences surfaced in the composition of vocabulary in this age range. There…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Child Development, Child Language, Cultural Differences
