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Elise Breitfeld; Jenny R. Saffran – Child Development, 2024
During word learning moments, toddlers experience labels and objects in particular environments. Do toddlers learn words better when the physical environment creates contrasts between objects with different labels? Thirty-six 21- to 24-month-olds (92% White, 22 female, data collected 8/21-4/22) learned novel words for novel objects presented using…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Physical Environment
Seidl, Amanda H.; Indarjit, Michelle; Borovsky, Arielle – Developmental Science, 2024
Infants experience language in rich multisensory environments. For example, they may first be exposed to the word applesauce while touching, tasting, smelling, and seeing applesauce. In three experiments using different methods we asked whether the number of distinct senses linked with the semantic features of objects would impact word recognition…
Descriptors: Multisensory Learning, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers, Visual Stimuli
Sheila Combs; Kristina N. Higgins – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Picturebooks can play an important function in the development of language by promoting language acquisition and enriching the overall language development of the child. Reading picturebooks to children builds a number of developmental domains and fosters significant learning outcomes for future achievements. In this study, children's ability to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Zhou, Xin; Wang, Luchang; Hong, Xuancu; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Science, 2024
The speech register that adults especially caregivers use when interacting with infants and toddlers, that is, infant-directed speech (IDS) or baby talk, has been reported to facilitate language development throughout the early years. However, the neural mechanisms as well as why IDS results in such a developmental faciliatory effect remain to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Vocabulary Development
Kartushina, Natalia; Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Multi-accent environments offer rich but inconsistent language input, as words are produced differently across accents. The current study examined, in two experiments, whether multi-accent variability affects infants' ability to LEARN WORDS and whether toddlers' prior experience with accents modulates learning. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Pronunciation, Dialects, Vocabulary Development
Christine E. Potter; Casey Lew-Williams – Journal of Child Language, 2024
We examined how noun frequency and the typicality of surrounding linguistic context contribute to children's real-time comprehension. Monolingual English-learning toddlers viewed pairs of pictures while hearing sentences with typical or atypical sentence frames ("Look at the…" vs. "Examine the…"), followed by nouns that were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Toddlers, Word Frequency, Sentences
Mumford, Katherine H.; Aussems, Suzanne; Kita, Sotaro – Developmental Science, 2023
Previous research has shown a strong positive association between right-handed gesturing and vocabulary development. However, the causal nature of this relationship remains unclear. In the current study, we tested whether gesturing with the right hand enhances linguistic processing in the left hemisphere, which is contralateral to the right hand.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Handedness, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
Ketrez, F. Nihan – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Turkish-speaking dyzygotic twins (n = 21) and singletons (n = 23) were tested through a standard articulation test to observe whether their consonant articulations were related to their vocabulary sizes, recorded through CDI forms, at age 3;0. Twins were observed to lag behind their singleton peers and performed below the norm level in their…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Phonemes, Turkish, Twins
Valentina Persici; Giulia Castelletti; Letizia Guerzoni; Domenico Cuda; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Variability in the vocabulary outcomes of children with cochlear implants (CIs) is partially explained by child-directed speech (CDS) characteristics. Yet, relatively little is known about whether and how mothers adapt their lexical and prosodic characteristics to the child's hearing status (before and after implantation, and compared…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Infants, Toddlers
Isil Dogan; Demet Özer; Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Reyhan Furman; Ö. Ece Demir-Lira; Seyda Özçaliskan; Tilbe Göksun – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Children comprehend iconic gestures relatively later than deictic gestures. Previous research with English-learning children indicated that they could comprehend iconic gestures at 26 months, a pattern whose extension to other languages is not yet known. The present study examined Turkish-learning children's iconic gesture comprehension and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Turkish
Weatherhead, Drew; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2022
A growing body of work suggests that speaker-race influences how infants and toddlers interpret the meanings of words. In two experiments, we explored the role of speaker-race on whether newly learned word-object pairs are generalized to new speakers. Seventy-two 20-month-olds were taught two word-object pairs from a familiar race speaker, and two…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Familiarity, Race, Generalization
Multilingual Toddlers' Vocabulary Development in Two Languages: Comparing Bilinguals and Trilinguals
Côté, Stephanie L.; Gonzalez-Barrero, Ana Maria; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Many children grow up hearing multiple languages, learning words in each. How does the number of languages being learned affect multilinguals' vocabulary development? In a pre-registered study, we compared productive vocabularies of bilingual (n = 170) and trilingual (n = 20) toddlers aged 17-33 months growing up in a bilingual community where…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Toddlers, Vocabulary Development
Ma, Lizhi; Twomey, Katherine; Westermann, Gert – Child Development, 2022
Others' emotional expressions affect individuals' attention allocation in social interactions, which are integral to the process of word learning. However, the impact of perceived emotions on word learning is not well understood. Two eye-tracking experiments investigated 78 British toddlers' (37 girls) of 29- to 31-month-old retention of novel…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Vocabulary Development, Eye Movements, Toddlers
Lauren Berger; Jennie Pyers; Amy Lieberman; Naomi Caselli – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
Most deaf children have hearing parents who do not know a sign language at birth and are at risk of limited language input during early childhood. Studying these children as they learn a sign language has revealed that timing of first-language exposure critically shapes language outcomes. But the input deaf children receive in their first language…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Native Language, Language Acquisition
Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development