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Development
Presented by Anusha Sharma
Introduction
A
productive vocabulary
Looked at first 50 words specifically
Ten kids: referential (object focused)
Lots of object words in lexicon
Suggests
others
Kids
Variation in Early
Sentences
Bloom
different form
Boys:
pronominal approach
My truck, I finish
Girls:
nominal approach
Child Factors
Some
Preferences
Input Factors
Lots
Expressive
Referential
mom
Socioeconomic Status
Hart
Linguistic Factors
Different
segmentation
Question
Can
Bilingual Language
Learners
Bilingual
behavior
Application: Rhythm
and Grammar Skills
Musical Rhythm Discrimination Explains
Individual Differences in Grammar Skills
in Children (Gordon et al., 2015)
Aim of Study
Participants
25 5-7 year old children
Native English speakers
Less than two years of formal music
training
Normally developing
Discrimination Task
Methods: Grammatical
Skill
Structured
Photographic Language
Expressive Test
Children shown photos and asked to
Methods: Phonological
Awareness
Comprehensive
Test of Phonological
Processing
Measure phonological ability
Three tasks in this test
1) had to remove a phonological sound from a
word (tiger without /g/)
2) combining phonological sounds to make
new words
3) sound matching: identifying pictures that
share same beginning or ending sound
Methods: Non-Verbal
Intelligence
Gave
Questions:
Why
Do
IQ
Phonological awareness and rhythm
discrimination arent significantly related
in this study
Questions
Why
old
Would you expect a different result with
Questions:
Can
Random Ideas
Infant