Vocabulary development in Italian children: a longitudinal evaluation of quantitative and qualitative aspects

D’Odorico, Laura; Carubbi, Stefania; Salerni, Nicoletta; Calvo, Vincenzo

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“…Also consistent with Bornstein et al (2004), D'Odorico, Carubbi, Salerni & Calvo (2001 found that noun predominance varied with vocabulary size and that there were marked individual differences in noun predominance. In contrast, there is some evidence that children learning Mandarin, Korean and Dutch do not show a strong predominance of nouns in their early vocabularies (Tardif, 1996 ;Tomasello & Merriman, 1995).…”

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

Papaeliou

Rescorla

2011

J. Child Lang.

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“…International studies confirm that, after a small vocabulary growth approximately from 12 to 24 months of age, the child goes through a period called vocabulary explosion, demonstrating the age effect over the produced lexical items, in the same manner that occurred in the current study [27][28][29][30] . Still related to the age group, the data found here confirm an international study in which it places the rising of grammatical words as slow 30 , since there was a certain content word predominance.…”

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Aquisição lexical inicial e verificação da hipótese do viés nominal

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OBJETIVO: verificar de que modo se dá a aquisição lexical inicial de crianças com desenvolvimento típico, em termos de tipos e ocorrências dos itens lexicais e se a hipótese do viés nominal realmente ocorre, e em qual versão, forte ou fraca. MÉTODOS: a amostra foi composta por 20 crianças de ambos os sexos, com desenvolvimento típico de linguagem. Este estudo abrangeu a faixa etária de 1:0 a 1:11 (ano : meses) dividida em três subfaixas (1:0 - 1:3;29, 1:4 - 1:7;29, 1:8 - 1:11;29). Foram realizadas gravações da fala espontânea de cada sujeito, e após, análise lexical quanto aos tipos e ocorrências dos itens lexicais produzidos. Empregou-se a estatística Mann Whitney; Kruskal - Wallis e Wilcoxon, com nível de significância p< 0.05. RESULTADOS: não houve diferença estatística para nenhuma das variáveis em relação ao sexo, porém, há diferença entre as subfaixas etárias 1 em relação a 2 e a 3 para a maioria das variáveis, além disso, verificou-se o predomínio das palavras de conteúdo nas subfaixas etárias 2 e 3 e por fim, verificou-se o predomínio de substantivos sobre os verbos em todas as faixas etárias. CONCLUSÃO: a aquisição lexical inicial em crianças com desenvolvimento típico dá-se de forma progressiva de acordo com o aumento da faixa etária e neste período, a variável sexo não influencia na produção linguística. Além disso, a existência da hipótese do viés nominal foi confirmada em sua versão fraca, corroborando a tese que inspirou essa pesquisa.

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“…Most studies find the same order of acquisition as is found for English: Children learn nouns more easily than predicates Caselli, Casadio, & Bates, 1999;D'Amico, Devescovi, & Bates, 2003;D'Odorico, Carubbi, Salerni, & Calvo, 2001). However, Camaioni and Longobardi (1995) observed the speech production of 15 children in the age range of 16-20 months and found that only 1 child showed a clear predominance of nouns.…”

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“…Therefore, whereas very young children (up to 30 months of age) use mostly very imageable words, subsequent lexical choices and/or the types of subjects treated cause an increased incidence of less imageable words, and this holds specifically for verbs. When we split words of the CFV by grammatical category, we obtained additional data favoring the theory of the evolutionary sequence of vocabulary acquisition (see Caselli et al, 1999;Colombo & Burani, 2002;D'Amico et al, 2003;D'Odorico et al, 2001;Szekely et al, in press). Like children in other countries, Italian children seem to acquire nouns earlier and more easily than predicates (i.e., verbs and adjectives).…”

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A database for semantic, grammatical, and frequency properties of the first words acquired by Italian children

Rinaldi

Barca

Burani

2004

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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In this study, we analyze semantic, grammatical, and frequency characteristics of the first words acquired by Italian children (Child's First Vocabulary, or CFV), drawn from the Italian version of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI;Fenson et al., 1993). The CDI is an instrument for the collection of reliable information on early language development-that is, in the age range of 8-30 months. It is organized into two distinct questionnaires. The first, Gestures and Words (ages 8-16 months), is used for the collection of information on the comprehension and production of words and on the use of communicative gestures. The second questionnaire, Words and Phrases (ages 16-30 months), is used to collect information on word production and on grammatical, syntactic, and morphological competence. The questionnaires are compiled by parents on the basis of written instructions. The score for each child can be converted into a percentile score and compared with the scores of other children of the same age. This instrument has been translated and adapted for use with children of different cultures and languages.In preceding studies, in which norms for age of acquisition were derived from subjective estimates of adults, it was found that words acquired early have highly imageable referents and are very frequent in the written lexicon of children in primary school and in both the written and spoken lexicons of adults (for the case of Italian, see Barca, Burani, & Arduino, 2002). The main goal of the present study was to identify the imageability and frequency properties of the words in the CFV, and to assess whether the correlations that hold among the variables for these words acquired very early (before 30 months of age) are similar to the correlations that have been described for other word samples. The second goal was to verify if the CFV has the same proportions of nouns, verbs, and adjectives as are found in adult vocabulary. Finally, we compared the age of acquisition, imageability, and frequency characteristics of different grammatical categories (nouns, verbs, and adjectives). , new values of imageability are provided and values for age of acquisition, child written frequency, and adult written and spoken frequency are included. In this article, correlations among the variables are discussed and the words are grouped into grammatical categories. The results show that words acquired early have imageable referents, are frequently used in the texts read and written by elementary school children, and are frequent in adult written and spoken language. Nouns are acquired earlier and are more imageable than both verbs and adjectives. The composition in grammatical categories of the child's first vocabulary reflects the composition of adult vocabulary. The full set of these norms can be downloaded from www.psychonomic.org/archive/.

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Vocabulary development in Italian children: a longitudinal evaluation of quantitative and qualitative aspects

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

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

Aquisição lexical inicial e verificação da hipótese do viés nominal

A database for semantic, grammatical, and frequency properties of the first words acquired by Italian children

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