Sex Differences in the Vocabulary of Young Children

Burroughs, G. E. R.; Walker, Harvey

doi:10.1080/0013191590110304

Cited by 9 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…On the other hand, Hunter Diack, in his book Reading a d the Psychology of Perceptiolz, has made the interesting suggestion that a kind of aural analysis of the sounds of words-albeit not a full conscious logical analysis-is implicit in a child's earliest linguistic efforts (Diack, 1960). But what succeeds this postulated implicit analysis and precedes the attainment of fluent explicit word analysis remains obscure.…”

Section: I59mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Analysis of Word Sounds by Young Children

Bruce

1964

Brit J of Edu Psychol

260

119

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

SUMMARY. This study is concerned with the development of the ability to make a simple phonetic analysis of the spoken word. It describes the performance of children a t different levels of mental development on the task of analysing word sounds into two components : a letter sound and a sound unit which is the residual word obtained by elision of the letter sound from the test word. The results, which refer to the mental age range 5+ to 9+, suggest that there is a gradual progression towards accurate phonetic analysis, in the course of which children :(a) Come to recognise that words and sounds are interrelated. These necessary features of the ability are not attained in discrete, successive steps, but are present in increasing proportions with advancing mental age. Mental age 7+ is indicated as the level a t which they first become available in sufficient degree to permit some success with the task.exla.

show abstract

Section: I59mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Analysis of Word Sounds by Young Children

Bruce

1964

Brit J of Edu Psychol

260

119

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Since the classical word lists of Thomdike (1921) many vocabulary counts have been carried out both in the United States and Great Britain. Within recent years lists have been produced by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (1949) and Burroughs (1957). Schonell (1956) has recently published a study of the oral vocabularies of Australian workers which represents a landmark in the study of adult speech and serves as a model of painstaking word collection and team work.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

A Study of the Oral Vocabularies of Severely Subnormal Patients

Mein¹

1961

J intellect Disabil Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The stimulus pictures (copies may be obtained from the author) were constructed to incorporate a vocabulary at the six-year reading level. The vocabulary was drawn from several current reading schemes and analysed according to Burroughs (1957). The pictures were black and white line drawings measuring 80mm x 105mm, reproduced on A4 size paper.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%