Different language skills are considered fundamental for successful reading and spelling acquisition. Extensive evidence has highlighted the central role of phonological awareness in early literacy experiences. However, many orthographic systems also require the contribution of morphological awareness. The goal of this study was to examine the morphological and phonological awareness skills of ...

This study examined the relationship between viewing an infant DVD and expressive and receptive language outcomes. Children between 12 and 15 months were randomly assigned to view Baby Wordsworth, a DVD highlighting words around the house marketed for children beginning at 12 months of age. Viewings took place in home settings over 6 weeks. After every 2 weeks and five exposures to the DVD, chi...

BACKGROUND High levels of behaviour problems are found in children with language impairments, but less is known about the level and nature of language impairment in children with severe behavioural problems. In particular, previous data suggest that at primary age, receptive impairments are more closely related to behaviour problems, whereas expressive language has a closer link at a later age....

PURPOSE This study explores the effectiveness of a collaborative, classroom-based model in enhancing the development of vocabulary and phonological awareness skills for kindergarten and first-grade children in an inner-city school district. METHOD Four regular education teachers from the neighborhood school were randomly selected for participation. Children were randomly assigned to classroom...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of this study was to ascertain the relevance of the vocabulary of the Language Development Survey (LDS) for typically developing South African toddlers who attend ethno-linguistically diverse early childhood development centres. RATIONALE The need for exploration of the expressive vocabulary of this population stems from the diverse linguistic contexts to which toddl...

A longitudinal comparison was made between development of verbal and visuo-spatial short-term memory and vocabulary in children with Down syndrome (DS), children with specific language impairment (SLI), and typically developing children as a control group. Participants were 12 children with DS (6 males, 6 females; mean chronological age 9y 9mo [SD 2.8 mo], range 8y 6mo to 11y 4mo); nine childre...

This study examines potential predictors of 'precocious talking' (expressive language ≥90th percentile) at one and two years of age, and of 'stability' in precocious talking across both time periods, drawing on data from a prospective community cohort comprising over 1,800 children. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between precocious talking and the following potential p...

The paper argues that a Linked Data source should publish an application ontology that includes a set of constraints that capture the semantics of the classes and properties used to model the data. Furthermore, if the Linked Data source publishes a mapping between its vocabulary and the vocabulary of a domain ontology, then it has to specify the application ontology constraints so that they are...

Structural analyses of developing lexicons have provided evidence for both children's holistic lexical representations and sensitivity to phonetic segments. In the present investigation, neighbourhood analyses of two children's (age 3;6) expressive lexicons, maternal input, and an adult lexicon were conducted. In addition to raw counts and frequency-weighted counts, neighbourhood size was calcu...

This paper deals with the use of a stochastic contextfree grammar (SCFG) for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition; in particular, an SCFG with phraselevel dependency rules is built. Unlike n-gram models, the SCFG can describe not only local constraints but also global constraints pertaining to the sentence as a whole, thus making possible language models with great expressive power. H...