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Tuesday February 5th  2008

“Early words - What do they tell us?"”.

Dr Graham Schafer from the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, Reading University

 

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Graham Schafer: Early Words, What do they tell us?
References used in the Café Scientifique, Salisbury, 5th March 2008

Bates, E., Bretherton, I., & Snyder, L. (1988). From first words to grammar: Individual differences and dissociable mechanisms. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Benedict, H. (1979). Early lexical development: Comprehension and production. Journal of Child Language, 6, 183-200.
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Dale, P. S. (1991). The validity of a parent report measure of vocabulary and syntax at 24 months Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 565-571.
Dale, P. S., Bates, E., Reznick, S. J., & Morisset, C. (1989). The validity of a parent report instrument of child language at twenty months. Journal of Child Language, 16, 239-249.
Darwin, C. (1877). A biographical sketch of an infant. Mind, 2(7), 285-294.
Dromi, E. (1987). Early lexical development. Cambrdge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Fenson, L., Dale, P. S., Reznick, J. S., Bates, E., Thal, D. J., & Pethick, S. J. (1994). Variability in early communicative development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59(5, Serial No 242), 1-189.
Ferguson, C. A. (1964). Baby talk in six languages. American Anthropologist, 66(6, Part 2), 103-114 
Ganger, J., & Brent, M. R. (2004). Reexamining the vocabulary spurt. Developmental Psychology, 40(4), 621-632.
Hamilton, A., Plunkett, K., & Schafer, G. (2000). Infant vocabulary development assessed with a British communicative development inventory. Journal of Child Language, 27, 689-705.
Huttenlocher, J., Haight, W., Bryk, A., Seltzer, M., & Lyons, T. (1991). Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender. Developmental Psychology, 27, 236-248.
Jakobson, R. (1968). Child language, aphasia, and phonological universals. Oxford, England: Mouton.
Kamhi, A. G. (1986). The elusive first word: The importance of the naming insight for the development of referential speech. Journal of Child Language, 13(1), 155-161.
Maurer, D., Pathman, T., & Mondloch, C. J. (2006). The shape of boubas: sound–shape correspondences in toddlers and adults. Developmental Science, 9(3), 316-322.
Miller, J. F., Sedey, A. L., & Miolo, G. (1995). Validity of  parent report measures of vocabulary development for children with Down Syndrome. Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 38(5), 1037-1044.
Mills, D. L., Plunkett, K., Prat, C., & Schafer, G. (2005). Watching the infant brain learn words: Effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive Development, 20, 19-31.
Murdock, G. P. (1965). Culture and Society. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Preyer, W. (1889). The mind of the child. New York: Appleton.

 
 
     
 
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