2008
DOI: 10.1080/02699200701669945
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Lexical diversity and productivity in French preschoolers: developmental, gender and sociocultural factors

Abstract: In this study, we examined the influence of child gender and sociocultural (SCL) factors in language production. Subjects were French Parisian children in nine age groups (24, 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, 42, 45 and 48 months). A total of 316 language samples were recorded during a 20-min standardized play session. Measures of grammatical and lexical development included Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) and word type and token - specifically, grammatical words such as determiners, prepositions and pronouns as well as ver… Show more

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“…A research by Gérard et al (2010) 9 , conducted with children with cochlear implants and using a scale that evaluates five components of oral language also concluded that there were no significant differences between genders 9 , thus supporting the results obtained in this study. Mendes et al (2012) 13 did not find any statistically significant differences in hearing children, it nonetheless verified, contrary to our findings, that the female children had a slight advantage in language gains. The data registered by Sandri et al (2009) 10 on the analysis of the communicative profile of the normal hearing children between the ages of 1 and 3 years old, has also differed form the data we found.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 57%
“…A research by Gérard et al (2010) 9 , conducted with children with cochlear implants and using a scale that evaluates five components of oral language also concluded that there were no significant differences between genders 9 , thus supporting the results obtained in this study. Mendes et al (2012) 13 did not find any statistically significant differences in hearing children, it nonetheless verified, contrary to our findings, that the female children had a slight advantage in language gains. The data registered by Sandri et al (2009) 10 on the analysis of the communicative profile of the normal hearing children between the ages of 1 and 3 years old, has also differed form the data we found.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 57%
“…The significant increase in lexical types produced between the first age group and that of three years, four months and three years, seven months, 29 days was similar to that found in a German study with a similar methodology (24) . There was a more pronounced increase in the means of lexical types between the age groups in the early stages of acquisition, similar to a study with French children, which found a marked progression in measures of lexical diversity between 24 and 36 months (25) . This may be related to the vocabulary explosion phase, a period of rapid growth in the number of lexical items produced by children (21) .…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 66%
“…This is proven by researches in which there was a high increase in the measures of lexical diversity and productivity and occurrence of vocabulary spurt (18,26) . The ability to produce markedness structures in early ages can represent a minimal competence in the linguistic, perceptual and motor systems that can influence positively the acquisition of linguistic system, including lexical and morphosyntax (27) .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%