Relationships between expressive vocabulary size and spoken word recognition in children

1999 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 2245-2246
Author(s):  
Benjamin Munson
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Expressive Vocabulary ◽  
Vocabulary Size

scholarly journals How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish–English bilinguals

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIRGINIA A. MARCHMAN ◽  
ANNE FERNALD ◽  
NEREYDA HURTADO
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Processing Efficiency ◽  
Lexical Development ◽  
Online Processing ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

ABSTRACTResearch using online comprehension measures with monolingual children shows that speed and accuracy of spoken word recognition are correlated with lexical development. Here we examined speech processing efficiency in relation to vocabulary development in bilingual children learning both Spanish and English (n=26 ; 2 ; 6). Between-language associations were weak: vocabulary size in Spanish was uncorrelated with vocabulary in English, and children's facility in online comprehension in Spanish was unrelated to their facility in English. Instead, efficiency of online processing in one language was significantly related to vocabulary size in that language, after controlling for processing speed and vocabulary size in the other language. These links between efficiency of lexical access and vocabulary knowledge in bilinguals parallel those previously reported for Spanish and English monolinguals, suggesting that children's ability to abstract information from the input in building a working lexicon relates fundamentally to mechanisms underlying the construction of language.

scholarly journals Spoken word recognition by Latino children learning Spanish as their first language

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
NEREYDA HURTADO ◽  
VIRGINIA A. MARCHMAN ◽  
ANNE FERNALD
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
The Impact

Research on the development of efficiency in spoken language understanding has focused largely on middle-class children learning English. Here we extend this research to Spanish-learning children (n=49; M=2;0; range=1;3–3;1) living in the USA in Latino families from primarily low socioeconomic backgrounds. Children looked at pictures of familiar objects while listening to speech naming one of the objects. Analyses of eye movements revealed developmental increases in the efficiency of speech processing. Older children and children with larger vocabularies were more efficient at processing spoken language as it unfolds in real time, as previously documented with English learners. Children whose mothers had less education tended to be slower and less accurate than children of comparable age and vocabulary size whose mothers had more schooling, consistent with previous findings of slower rates of language learning in children from disadvantaged backgrounds. These results add to the cross-linguistic literature on the development of spoken word recognition and to the study of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) factors on early language development.

Individual differences in executive function affect spoken word recognition

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Mercier ◽  
Irina Pivneva ◽  
Corinne Haigh ◽  
Debra A. Titone
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word

Tracking the time course of lexical access in spoken word recognition

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Allopenna ◽  
James S. Magnuson ◽  
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word
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