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How the Characteristics of Words in Child-Directed Speech Differ from Adult-Directed Speech to Influence Children's Productive Vocabularies
| العنوان: | How the Characteristics of Words in Child-Directed Speech Differ from Adult-Directed Speech to Influence Children's Productive Vocabularies |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Jones, Gary (ORCID |
| المصدر: | First Language. Jun 2023 43(3):253-282. |
| الإتاحة: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 30 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2023 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Phonemes, Word Frequency, Phonology, Probability, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01427237221150070 |
| تدمد: | 0142-7237 1740-2344 |
| مستخلص: | Child-directed speech has long been known to influence children's vocabulary learning. However, while we know that caregiver utterances differ from those directed at adults in various ways, little is known about any differences in the lexical properties of child-directed and adult-directed utterances. We compare over half a million word tokens from adult speech directed at children (from caregiver--child transcriptions) to the same quantity directed at adults. We show that child-directed speech contains greater numbers of words that are lower in phonemic length, higher in frequency, lower in phonotactic probability, and higher in neighborhood density than adult-directed speech; furthermore, child-directed speech explains over twice the variability of children's productive noun vocabularies than adult-directed speech. These findings indicate that children's word production is clearly influenced by the characteristics of the words spoken directly to them and that researchers need to be wary of using adult-directed language corpora when calculating lexical measures. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | EJ1377697 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 0142-7237 1740-2344 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/01427237221150070 |