The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study in Greek Junior High School aged children & data for expressive and receptive language for this population) Tafiadis Dionysios, Anastasios Mokas, Konstantinos Chorevas, Euaggelia Bogindrouka, Kaliopi Kentioglou, Emmanouil Pantazis, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiolo...

This paper argues for a distinct treatment of expressive palatalization – an apparently phonologically unmotivated process that applies in babytalk registers, diminutive constructions, and sound symbolism. As evidence we present results of a cross-linguistic survey of expressive palatalization and of two experiments testing native speakers’ intuitions about alternations in Japanese mimetic voca...

The primary focus of the study was to determine the relations among vocabulary and phonological awareness skills in two groups of preschool-aged children (n=118): those with typical vocabulary skills and those with deficits in expressive and receptive vocabulary. Additionally, we sought to determine if the patterns of relations among the variables differed by vocabulary status. Finally, given t...

We assessed the English vocabulary and verbal fluency of college students who were either bilinguals who were born abroad and spoke English or monolingual speakers of English. We examined the relationship between age of arrival to the U.S. of bilinguals and their English vocabulary. The bilinguals' performance on English vocabulary was in the average range. However, despite arriving to the U.S....

This study used a prospective longitudinal design to examine the early developmental pathways that underlie language growth in infants at high risk (n = 50) and low risk (n = 34) for autism spectrum disorder in the first 18 months of life. While motor imitation and responding to joint attention (RJA) have both been found to predict expressive language in children with autism spectrum disorder a...

The current study attempts to differentiate effects of phonotactic probability (i.e. the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence), neighbourhood density (i.e. the number of phonologically similar words), word frequency, and word length on expressive vocabulary development by young children. Naturalistic conversational samples for three children (age 1;4-3; 1) were obtained from CHILDES. In...

The present study looked at the amount of input and output in two groups of children and their normally hearing mothers: congenitally hearing-impaired children with a cochlear implant (CI) and normally hearing children (NH). The aim of the study was threefold: (a) to investigate the input provided by the two groups of mothers, (b) to investigate the output of the two groups of children, and (c)...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of assessments of sign language development in young deaf children. This study gathered age-related scores from a sample of deaf native signing children using an adapted version of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Fenson et al., 1994). METHOD Parental reports on children's receptive and expressive signing were collected longitudinally on 29 deaf native British Sign Langua...

Purpose: There is general consensus that the ability to repeat nonsense words is related to vocabulary size in young children, but there is considerable debate about the nature of the relationship and the mechanisms that underlie it. Research with adults has proposed a shared neural substrate for nonword repetition (NWR) and language production, but this has been little explored in children. Me...

PURPOSE The relations of phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness and vocabulary to word reading and spelling were examined for 304 first-grade children who were receiving differentiated instruction in a Response to Intervention (RtI) model of instruction. METHOD First-grade children were assessed on their phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness; expressive voca...