The early language in Victoria study: Predicting vocabulary at age one and two years from gesture and object use
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The Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have been used widely to document early communicative development. The paper reports on a large community sample of 1,447 children recruited from low, middle and high socioeconomic (SES) areas across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Regression analyses were conducted to determine the extent to which communicative behaviours reported at 0 ; 8 and 1 ; 0 predicted vocabulary development at 1 ; 0 and 2 ; 0. In support of previous findings with smaller, often less representative samples, gesture and object use at 1 ; 0 were better predictors of 2 ; 0 vocabulary than were gesture and object use at 0 ; 8. At 1 ; 0, children from the lower SES groups were reported to understand more words than children from the higher SES groups, but there were no SES differences for words produced at 1 ; 0 or 2 ; 0. The findings add to our understanding of the variability in the development of early communicative behaviours.
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Early word comprehension and gesture production are tightly associated and predictive of expressive vocabulary at 24 months.
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- Authors
- BAVIN, E. L., PRIOR, M., REILLY, S., BRETHERTON, L., WILLIAMS, J., EADIE, P., BARRETT, Y., & UKOUMUNNE, O. C.
- Affiliations
- La Trobe University (AU)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- Corresponding author
- BAVIN, E. L.
- Venue
- Journal of Child Language
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2008-06-27
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 687-701
- ISSN
- 0305-0009 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7602
- OpenAlex
- W2072671450
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 8.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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- Locations
- Journal of Child Language (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Swinburne figshare (Swinburne University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Keywords
- early vocabulary development, gesture use, object use, communication development, MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory, socioeconomic status, word understanding, word production, one-year-old children, two-year-old children, community sample
- MeSH terms
- Child Language, Gestures, Humans, Infant, Prospective Studies, Speech Production Measurement, Verbal Learning, Vocabulary
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