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Direct linkGuedes, Carolina; Cadima, Joana – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The interplay between self-regulation related skills and language is well recognized in dynamic theories, but few empirical studies have tested it, especially in toddlers. The current study examines the bidirectional links between self-regulation related skills and expressive vocabulary in a longitudinal study during toddlerhood. Participants were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Self Control, Expressive Language, Longitudinal Studies
Luo, Zhangjing; Lahat, Ayelet; Perlman, Michal; Howe, Nina; Recchia, Holly E.; Bukowski, William M.; Ross, Hildy – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
We examined the evolution of social pretend play in toddlers and tested whether children's age, gender, and language abilities were associated with changes in social pretend play over time. We employed a unique observational data set that followed 28 children (M[subscript age] = 27 months old; 57% boys) with each of two unfamiliar peers over 18…
Descriptors: Play, Fantasy, Toddlers, Language Skills
Huei-Mei Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao; Chun-Yi Lin; Gwyneth Rost; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The current investigation evaluated the extent to which early noun, verb, and adjective lexicon sizes predicted later grammatical outcomes in Mandarin-speaking children with and without late language emergence (LLE) using a parent report. Method: In Study 1, the parents of 24 Mandarin-speaking children with typical language filled out the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Download full textJennifer E. Cunningham; Jason C. Chow; Kathleen Artman Meeker; Abby Taylor; Mary Louise Hemmeter; Ann P. Kaiser – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this article is to present a theory-driven blended intervention model that integrates evidence-based interventions to support language and social development of young children. We (1) provide an overview of practices that are designed to support language and social-emotional development, (2) present a theory of change model that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention, Educational Theories
Jennifer E. Cunningham; Jason C. Chow; Kathleen Artman Meeker; Abby Taylor; Mary Louise Hemmeter; Ann P. Kaiser – Infants and Young Children, 2023
The purpose of this article is to present a theory-driven blended intervention model that integrates evidence-based interventions to support language and social development of young children. We (1) provide an overview of practices that are designed to support language and social-emotional development, (2) present a theory of change model that…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention, Educational Theories
Lisa MacDonald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study considered the songs currently in use in Gaelic groups for 0-3 year olds in Scotland, whilst investigating how practitioners use them in the groups. In this article, I argue that Gaelic Early Years practitioners insufficiently understand the potential of song in relation to Gaelic language acquisition with young children and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Singing
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Mathée-Scott, Janine; Larson, Caroline; Venker, Courtney; Pomper, Ron; Edwards, Jan; Saffran, Jenny; Ellis Weismer, Susan – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
To efficiently learn new words, children use constraints such as mutual exclusivity (ME) to narrow the search for potential referents. The current study investigated the use of ME in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and neurotypical (NT) peers matched on nonverbal cognition. Thirty-two toddlers with ASD and 26 NT toddlers participated…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Gámez, Perla B.; Palermo, Francisco; Perry, Jordan S.; Galindo, Maily – Developmental Science, 2023
There is a well-documented link between bilingual language development and the relative amounts of exposure to each language. Less is known about the role of quality indicators of caregiver-child interactions in bilingual homes, including caregiver input diversity, warmth and sensitivity. This longitudinal study examines the relation between…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Linguistic Input, Spanish, Bilingualism
Curtis, Philip R.; Estabrook, Ryne; Roberts, Megan Y.; Weisleder, Adriana – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Late talkers (LTs) are a group of children who exhibit delays in language development without a known cause. Although a hallmark of LTs is a reduced expressive vocabulary, little is known about LTs' processing of semantic relations among words in their emerging vocabularies. This study uses an eye-tracking task to compare 2-year-old LTs'…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Delayed Speech, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Levickis, Penny; Eadie, Patricia; Mensah, Fiona; McKean, Cristina; Bavin, Edith L.; Reilly, Sheena – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: A wealth of evidence supports the important role high-quality parent-child interactions play in children's early language acquisition. However, the impact on later language outcomes remains unclear. Aims: To examine the associations between responsive parental behaviours across the early years and child language outcomes at age 7 years…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Language Acquisition, Correlation
Kelly Meadows – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The prevalence of late language emergence (LLE) in young children is high, comprising 10 to 20% of toddlers. Late language emergence refers to children who do not use at least 50 single words and 2-word phrases at the age of two. Current best practices for the under-three population with or at risk of having disabilities include the use of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Caregivers, Intervention
Marcela Peña; Constanza Vásquez-Venegas; Patricia Cortés; Enrica Pittaluga; Mitzy Herrera; Esteban J. Pino; Raul G. Escobar; Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz; Pamela Guevara – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Young children's linguistic and communicative abilities are foundational for their academic achievement and overall well-being. We present the positive outcomes of a brief tablet-based intervention aimed at teaching toddlers and preschoolers new word-object and letter-sound associations. We conducted two experiments, one involving toddlers…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Intervention, Language Skills, Communication Skills
Ahn, Dorothy; Snedeker, Jesse – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Korean is a classifier language in which bare nouns are not obligatorily number-marked. Children learning other classifier languages like Japanese and Mandarin are late in learning the plural morpheme. In this paper, we present two datasets that suggest that Korean plural marker "-tul" is acquired much earlier, in contrast to what has…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Korean, Nouns, Toddlers
Loukatou, Georgia; Scaff, Camila; Demuth, Katherine; Cristia, Alejandrina; Havron, Naomi – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Despite the fact that in most communities interaction occurs between the child and multiple speakers, most previous research on input to children focused on input from mothers. We annotated recordings of Sesotho-learning toddlers living in non-industrial Lesotho in South Africa, and French-learning toddlers living in urban regions in France. We…
Descriptors: Toddlers, French, African Languages, Language Acquisition
