Early language delay and specific language impairment

J Moyle, SF Stokes, T Klee - … disabilities research reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Early language delay (ELD) is a warning sign that may presage the presence of a later
language impairment (LI). In order to allow more targeted identification and earlier …

Understanding the developing sound system: Interactions between sounds and words

S Curtin, TS Zamuner - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of the first 2 years of life, infants are learning a great deal about the sound
system of their native language. Acquiring the sound system requires the infant to learn …

[HTML][HTML] Receptive and expressive language ability differentially support symbolic understanding over time: Picture comprehension in late talking and typically …

RW Cheung, C Hartley, P Monaghan - Journal of experimental child …, 2022 - Elsevier
Symbols are a hallmark of human communication, and a key question is how children's
emerging language skills relate to their ability to comprehend symbols. In particular …

A comparison of children aged 4–5 years learning to read through instructional texts containing either a high or a low proportion of phonically-decodable words

R Price-Mohr, C Price - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020 - Springer
We report a study where we investigated the effect of low or high phonically-decodable texts
on young children learning to read. Two parallel series of 12 instructional reading books …

How children explore the phonological network in child-directed speech: A survival analysis of children's first word productions

MT Carlson, M Sonderegger, M Bane - Journal of memory and language, 2014 - Elsevier
We explored how phonological network structure influences the age of words' first
appearance in children's (14–50 months) speech, using a large, longitudinal corpus of …

The impact of phonological neighborhood density on typical and atypical emerging lexicons

SF Stokes - Journal of Child Language, 2014 - cambridge.org
According to the Extended Statistical Learning account (ExSL; Stokes, Kern & dos Santos,
2012) late talkers (LTs) continue to use neighborhood density (ND) as a cue for word …

Do children really acquire dense neighbourhoods?

SD Jones, S Brandt - Journal of child language, 2019 - cambridge.org
Children learn high phonological neighbourhood density words more easily than low
phonological neighbourhood density words (Storkel, 2004). However, the strength of this …

The relation between phonological and lexical development in French-speaking children

M Kehoe, T Patrucco-Nanchen, M Friend… - Clinical linguistics & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the relation between lexical and phonological variables in 40 French-
speaking children, aged 2; 5. Specifically, it examines the influence of phonetic complexity …

Development and validation of a probe word list to assess speech motor skills in children

AK Namasivayam, A Huynh, R Bali, F Granata… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The aim of the study was to develop and validate a probe word list and scoring
system to assess speech motor skills in preschool and school-age children with motor …

Developmental change is key to understanding primary language impairment: The case of phonotactic probability and nonword repetition

C McKean, C Letts, D Howard - 2013 - ASHA
Purpose In this study, the authors aimed to explore the relationship between lexical and
phonological knowledge in children with primary language impairment (PLI) through the …