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Rescorla, Leslie; Safyer, Paige – Journal of Child Language, 2013
For sixty-seven children with ASD (age 1;6 to 5;11), mean Total Vocabulary score on the Language Development Survey (LDS) was 65.3 words; twenty-two children had no reported words; and twenty-one children had 1-49 words. When matched for vocabulary size, children with ASD and children in the LDS normative sample did not differ in semantic category…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Vocabulary Development
Keil, Rolf-Dietrich – Russisch, 1973
Descriptors: Adjectives, Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, German
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Teschner, Richard V. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
A study of the extent to which Spanish and French noun cognates in a 15,000-word corpus have the same or different grammatical gender is presented, and a list of about 750 cognates with differing genders is included. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, French, Lexicology
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Streim, Nancy W.; Chapman, Robin S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
When lexical availability was manipulated through discourse support and word frequency for 40 target nouns, measurement of effects on length, complexity, order of mention, and fluency of 4- to 8-year-olds' utterances showed that the number and length of responses containing the target word varied with age, word frequency, and discourse support…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition