Eleven kindergarten-age students and 11 second-grade students were asked to perform
each of four phonological processing tasks:(a) confrontation naming of object drawings,(b) …

The goal of this study was to evaluate movement-based principles for understanding early
speech output patterns. Consonant repetition patterns within children's actual productions of …

A quantitative analysis of the single-word stage was performed by evaluating children's
production of words, relative to nonwords, along a monthly developmental continuum. The …

Purpose Our knowledge of speech rate development remains inadequate because of limited
longitudinal data and lack of data from children under age 3; 0 (years; months). The purpose …

This study examined the characteristics of early lexical acquisition in children with specific
language impairment. Sixteen unfamiliar words and referents were exposed across 10 …

Speech-language input from adult caregivers is a strong predictor of children's
developmental outcomes. But the properties of this child-directed speech are not static over …

Factors influencing the occurrence of trade-off effects among linguistic components were
examined. Several linguistic measures were used to represent syntactic and phonological …

Emerging evidence suggests domain-general processes, including working memory, may
contribute to reduced speech production skills in young children. This study compared the …

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 …