We examined the vocabulary growth of lexical categories in 719 children (age 13–24 months) as part of a longitudinal cohort study (the STEPS Study) and found a discrepancy in how these categories were ...

High-quality teacher-child interactions in early learning environments have been regarded as a key contributor to children’s early language and cognitive development in international scholarships.

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Vocabulary size and timing of fast word learning are important predictors of subsequent language milestones. 19, 20 Children with HL with hearing parents typically have difficulty acquiring new words, ...

Vocabulary encompasses the words that an individual knows and can use conveniently in a language. Words are the powerhouse of any language, and a person with a narrow vocabulary will likely sound ...

Quantity and quality of caregiver input was examined longitudinally in a sample of 50 parent-child dyads to determine which aspects of input contribute most to children's vocabulary skill across early ...

1 Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tevo’n, Israel. 2 The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. 3 Center for Educational Technology, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1.1. Academic Vocabulary and ...

Mothers of 3,759 children completed the Dutch version of the MacArthur Short Form Vocabulary Checklist (Zink & Lejaegere, 2003) at 18 months and a Dutch translation of the Language Development Survey ...