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Minimal Pair Word Learning and Vocabulary Size: Links with Later Language Skills ...
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Abstract:
There is increasing interest in the link between early linguistic skills and later language development. In a longitudinal study, we investigated how infants’ a) ability to use speech sound categories to guide word learning in the habituation-based minimal pair “Switch” task, and b) early productive vocabulary, related to their concurrent and later language task performance. The participants at Phase 1 were 64 infants aged 16-24 months (25 with familial risk of language/speech impairment), followed up at 27 months (Phase 2) and at three years (Phase 3). Phase 1 productive vocabulary was correlated with Phase 2 productive vocabulary, and with concurrent and later (Phase 3) tests of language production and comprehension scores (standardized tool), and phonology. Phase 1 Switch task performance was correlated with concurrent productive vocabulary and language production scores, but not by Phase 3. However, a combination of early low vocabulary score and a preference for looking at an already-habituated ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0387230 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0387230
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