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Individual differences in the early lexicon: The child is a source of variability ...
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By the end of their first year of life, children are typically able to produce a handful of words. Over the second and third year of life, this vocabulary increases dramatically, reaching an average of 553 words by the age of 30 months (Frank, Braginsky, Yurovsky, & Marchman, 2016). Although this general pattern appears stable across children and languages, there are considerable individual differences in the words known to different children: German vocabulary data (Szagun, Stumper, & Schramm, 2009) suggests that, at 20 months, 52% of children produce the word Bagger 'digger' and 48% of children produce the word Bär 'bear'. Importantly, of the children who produce at least one of these words, 52% of them produce the one but not the other. It is not until 30 months that both words are produced by virtually all of the children. This suggests that there is a 10-month period during which some children know a word and others don't. What determines whether a child is a Bär baby or a Bagger baby? While ...
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170204 Linguistic Processes incl. Speech Production and Comprehension; 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified; Developmental and Educational Psychology; FOS Languages and literature; FOS Psychology; Linguistics
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6803855.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/Individual_differences_in_the_early_lexicon_The_child_is_a_source_of_variability/6803855/2
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