Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory

Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.; Plunkett, Kim; Schafer, Graham

doi:10.1017/s0305000900004414

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“…These findings are in accordance with findings for other languages (Bleses et al, 2008;Fenson et al, 2007;Fenson et al, 2000;Hamilton et al, 2000;Jackson-Maldonado et al, 2013;Kern, 2007;Pérez-Pereira & Resches, 2007;Simonsen et al, 2014). For vocabulary production, ceiling effects were observed only after 27 months and exclusively at the top half of the distribution, similar to trends reported in short form data for American English, Spanish and Galician.…”

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Infant communicative development assessed with the European Portuguese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms

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This article describes the European Portuguese MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms, the first published instruments for the assessment of language development in EP-learning infants and toddlers. Normative data from the EP population are presented, focusing on developmental trends for vocabulary learning, production of morphologically complex words and word combinations. Significant effects of gender were found for early word comprehension and production, as well as for toddlers' word production, word complexity and word combinations, with a consistent advantage for girls. By contrast, effects of socioeconomic status were limited to early word comprehension. A cross-language comparison with short form data for other languages was performed. Differences across languages only emerged for toddlers. However, effects of gender were found independently of language differences.

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Infant communicative development assessed with the European Portuguese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms

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“…In contrast, in the subsequent two age groups (2;0 to 2 ;5 and 2; 6 to 2; 11), mean LDS scores, SDs and percentage of children with fewer than 50 words were very similar across the two samples. The fact that Greek children had smaller LDS vocabularies than US children in the youngest age group (1 ; 6 to 1;11) but not at later ages is consistent with CDI studies comparing children from the UK, Australia and New Zealand with those from the US (Bavin et al, 2008;Hamilton, Plunkett & Schafer, 2000 ;Reese & Read, 2000). This suggests that US parents have a tendency to report larger vocabularies early in the acquisition period than parents from other societies, including other English-speaking societies.…”

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Vocabulary development in Greek children: a cross-linguistic comparison using the Language Development Survey*

Papaeliou

Rescorla

2011

J. Child Lang.

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This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1 ; 6 to 2 ; 11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). Vocabulary size increased markedly with age, but Greek toddlers appeared to get off to a slower start in early word learning than US children. The correlation between percentage word use scores in Greek and US samples was moderate in size, indicating considerable overlap but some differences. Common nouns were the largest category among the fifty most frequent words in both samples. Numbers of adjectives and verbs were comparable across languages, but people and closed-class words were more numerous in the Greek sample. Finally, Greek late talkers showed similar patterns of vocabulary composition to those observed in typically developing Greek children.

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“…with somewhat exaggerated prosody) and digitized for computerized presentation. Words were selected based on responses from 26 parents of 11-month-olds living in North-Wales to the Oxford Communicative Development Inventory (CDI [7]). Half of the words were judged to be familiar to the infants and half were rare English words (unfamiliar) matched to the familiar words in phonotactic structure (Table 1).…”

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Familiar words capture the attention of 11-month-olds in less than 250 ms

Thierry¹,

Vihman²,

Roberts³

2003

NeuroReport

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The capacity of human infants to discriminate contrasting speech sounds specializes to the native language by the end of the ¢rst year of life, when the ¢rst signs of word recognition have also been found, using behavioural measures. The extent of voluntary attentional involvement in such word recognition has not been explored, however, nor do we know what its neural time-course may be. Here we demonstrate that 11-month-old children shift their attention automatically to familiar words within 250 ms of presentation onset by measuring event-related potentials elicited by familiar and unfamiliar words. A signi¢cant modulation of the ¢rst negative peak (N200), known to index implicit change detection in adults, was induced by word familiarity in the infants.

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Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory

Cited by 278 publications

References 5 publications

Infant communicative development assessed with the European Portuguese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms

Infant communicative development assessed with the European Portuguese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories short forms

Vocabulary development in Greek children: a cross-linguistic comparison using the Language Development Survey*

Familiar words capture the attention of 11-month-olds in less than 250 ms

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